Draft Genome Sequence of Cronobacter sakazakii GP1999, Sequence Type 145, an Epiphytic Isolate Obtained from the Tomato's Rhizoplane/Rhizosphere Continuum

Hannah R Chase; Leo Eberl; Roger Stephan; HyeJin Jeong; Chaeyoon Lee; Samantha Finkelstein; Flavia Negrete; Jayanthi Gangiredla; Isha Patel; Ben D Tall; Gopal R Gopinath; Angelika Lehner

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00723-17

Draft Genome Sequence of Cronobacter sakazakii GP1999, Sequence Type 145, an Epiphytic Isolate Obtained from the Tomato's Rhizoplane/Rhizosphere Continuum

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 3;5(31):e00723-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00723-17.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
³ Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁴ Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland lehnera@fsafety.uzh.ch.

Abstract

We present here the draft genome of Cronobacter sakazakii GP1999, a sequence type 145 strain isolated from the rhizosphere of tomato plants. Assembly and annotation of the genome resulted in a genome of 4,504,670 bp in size, with 4,148 coding sequences, and a GC content of 56.8%.