Complete Genome Sequence of SS52, a Strain of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Recovered from Supershedder Cattle

Robab Katani; Rebecca Cote; Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay; Lingling Li; Terrance M Arthur; Chitrita DebRoy; Michael M Mwangi; Vivek Kapur

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01569-14

Complete Genome Sequence of SS52, a Strain of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Recovered from Supershedder Cattle

Genome Announc. 2015 Mar 19;3(2):e01569-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01569-14.

Authors

Robab Katani¹, Rebecca Cote, Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay, Lingling Li¹, Terrance M Arthur², Chitrita DebRoy, Michael M Mwangi, Vivek Kapur³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Clay Center, Nebraska, USA.
³ vkapur@psu.edu.

Abstract

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes foodborne infections, and cattle are the primary reservoir. Some animals, known as supershedders, excrete orders of magnitude more E. coli O157:H7 in the feces than normal. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of the SS52 supershedder strain of E. coli O157:H7.