Draft Genome Sequence of a Meningitic Isolate of Cronobacter sakazakii Clonal Complex 4, Strain 8399

Naqash Masood; Karen Moore; Audrey Farbos; Sumyya Hariri; Colin Block; Konrad Paszkiewicz; Ben Dickins; Alan McNally; Stephen Forsythe

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00833-13

Draft Genome Sequence of a Meningitic Isolate of Cronobacter sakazakii Clonal Complex 4, Strain 8399

Genome Announc. 2013 Oct 10;1(5):e00833-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00833-13.

Authors

Naqash Masood¹, Karen Moore, Audrey Farbos, Sumyya Hariri, Colin Block, Konrad Paszkiewicz, Ben Dickins, Alan McNally, Stephen Forsythe

Affiliation

¹ Pathogen Research Group, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Abstract

The Cronobacter sakazakii clonal lineage defined as clonal complex 4 (CC4), composed of nine sequence types, is associated with severe cases of neonatal meningitis. To date, only closely related C. sakazakii sequence type 4 (ST4) strains have been sequenced. C. sakazakii strain 8399, isolated from a case of neonatal meningitis, was sequenced as the first non-ST4 C. sakazakii strain.