Whole-Genome Sequencing of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Serovar Ouakam Isolated from Ground Turkey

Daya Marasini; Usama H Abo-Shama; Mohamed K Fakhr

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01618-15

Whole-Genome Sequencing of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Serovar Ouakam Isolated from Ground Turkey

Genome Announc. 2016 Jan 21;4(1):e01618-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01618-15.

Authors

Daya Marasini¹, Usama H Abo-Shama², Mohamed K Fakhr³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Science, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
² Department of Biological Science, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt.
³ Department of Biological Science, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA mohamed-fakhr@utulsa.edu.

Abstract

In this report, we announce the first whole-genome sequencing of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Ouakam strain GNT-01, isolated from ground turkey retail meat. The strain has a chromosome of 5,088,451 bp long, with a G+C content of 52.3%, and a plasmid of 109,715 bp.