Draft Genome Sequences of Enterotoxigenic Bacillus cereus Strains Obtained from Powdered Infant Formula

Laurenda Carter; Hannah R Chase; Hyerim Choi; SoYoung Jun; JiHyeon Park; Seungeun Jeong; MiJeong Kim; KyuYoung Han; ChaeYoon Lee; HyeJin Jeong; Samantha Finkelstein; Flavia Negrete; Hediye N Cinar; Ben D Tall; Gopal R Gopinath

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01644-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Enterotoxigenic Bacillus cereus Strains Obtained from Powdered Infant Formula

Genome Announc. 2017 Feb 23;5(8):e01644-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01644-16.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, Maryland, USA.
² Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, Maryland, USA gopal.gopinathrao@fda.hhs.gov.

Abstract

We introduce the draft genome sequences of five enterotoxigenic Bacillus cereus strains: Bc 12, Bc 67, Bc 111, Bc 112, and Bc 113, which were obtained from powdered infant formula. The genome sizes of the strains ranged from 5.5 to 5.8 Mb, and the G+C contents were ~35.2%.