Draft Genome Sequences of 33 Salmonella enterica Clinical and Wildlife Isolates from Chile

Magaly Toro; Patricio Retamal; Marc Allard; Eric W Brown; Peter Evans; Narjol Gonzalez-Escalona

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00054-15

Draft Genome Sequences of 33 Salmonella enterica Clinical and Wildlife Isolates from Chile

Genome Announc. 2015 Mar 19;3(2):e00054-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00054-15.

Authors

Magaly Toro, Patricio Retamal¹, Marc Allard², Eric W Brown², Peter Evans², Narjol Gonzalez-Escalona³

Affiliations

¹ Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
² Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Division of Microbiology, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA.
³ Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Division of Microbiology, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA narjol.gonzalez-escalona@fda.hhs.gov.

Abstract

Salmonella enterica causes health problem worldwide. The relationships among strains that are from the same serotype but different hosts, countries, and continents remain elusive. Few genome sequences are available from S. enterica isolates from South America. Therefore, we sequenced the genomes of 33 strains from diverse sources isolated in Chile and determined that they were of different serotypes. These genomes will improve phylogenetic analysis of Salmonella strains from Chile and the rest of South America.