Draft Genome Sequences of Enterococcus mundtii Strains Isolated from Beef Slaughterhouses in Kenya

Joseph Wambui; Marc Stevens; Patrick Murigu Kamau Njage; Daniel Wüthrich; Adrian Egli; Roger Stephan; Taurai Tasara

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00446-18

Draft Genome Sequences of Enterococcus mundtii Strains Isolated from Beef Slaughterhouses in Kenya

Genome Announc. 2018 May 24;6(21):e00446-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00446-18.

Authors

Joseph Wambui^{1

2}, Marc Stevens¹, Patrick Murigu Kamau Njage³, Daniel Wüthrich^{4

5}, Adrian Egli^{4

5}, Roger Stephan¹, Taurai Tasara⁶

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
² Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Technology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
³ Division for Epidemiology and Microbial Genomics, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
⁴ Division of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁵ Applied Microbiology Research, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁶ Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland tasarat@fsafety.uzh.ch.

Abstract

We present here draft genome sequences of Enterococcus mundtii strains K7-EM, P2-EM, C11-EM, and H18-EM, which were isolated from slaughterhouse equipment, carcasses, and personnel of small- and medium-sized beef slaughterhouses in Kenya.