New Sequence Types of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolated from a Malaysian Aquaculture Pond, as Revealed by Whole-Genome Sequencing

Soon Man Foo; Wilhelm Wei Han Eng; Yin Peng Lee; Kimberly Gui; Han Ming Gan

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00302-17

New Sequence Types of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolated from a Malaysian Aquaculture Pond, as Revealed by Whole-Genome Sequencing

Genome Announc. 2017 May 11;5(19):e00302-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00302-17.

Authors

Soon Man Foo¹, Wilhelm Wei Han Eng^{1

2}, Yin Peng Lee^{1

2}, Kimberly Gui¹, Han Ming Gan^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
² Genomics Facility, Tropical Medicine and Biology Platform, Monash University Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
³ School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia gan.han.ming@monash.edu.

Abstract

The acquisition of Photorhabdus insect-related (Pir) toxin-like genes in Vibrio parahaemolyticus has been linked to hepatopancreatic necrosis disease in shrimp. We report the whole-genome sequences of genetically virulent and avirulent V. parahaemolyticus isolated from a Malaysian aquaculture pond and show that they represent previously unreported sequence types of V. parahaemolyticus.