Genome Assembly of Shigella flexneri ATCC 12022, a Quality Control Reference Strain

H E Daligault; K W Davenport; T D Minogue; K A Bishop-Lilly; S M Broomall; D C Bruce; P S Chain; S R Coyne; T Freitas; K G Frey; H S Gibbons; J Jaissle; C-C Lo; L Meincke; A C Munk; C L Redden; C N Rosenzweig; S L Johnson

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01052-14

Genome Assembly of Shigella flexneri ATCC 12022, a Quality Control Reference Strain

Genome Announc. 2014 Oct 30;2(5):e01052-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01052-14.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
² Diagnostic Systems Division (DSD), United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.
³ United States Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA.
⁴ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA shannonj@lanl.gov.

Abstract

Shigella flexneri causes shigellosis, severe and potentially life-threatening diarrhea, and accounts for 18% of shigellosis cases in the United States. Here, we present the 4.51-Mbp genome assembly of S. flexneri ATCC 12022, a quality control and reference strain, in 10 scaffolds.