Draft Genome Sequence of Escherichia coli DSM 12242, a Highly Efficient Host Strain for the Isolation of Somatic Coliphages

Cátia Pacífico; Dmitrij Sofka; João André Carriço; Friederike Hilbert

doi:10.1128/MRA.00953-19

Draft Genome Sequence of Escherichia coli DSM 12242, a Highly Efficient Host Strain for the Isolation of Somatic Coliphages

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Sep 19;8(38):e00953-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00953-19.

Authors

Cátia Pacífico^#^{1

2}, Dmitrij Sofka^#³, João André Carriço^#⁴, Friederike Hilbert^#³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria 1545365@students.vetmeduni.ac.at.
² Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems an der Donau, Austria.
³ Department of Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria.
⁴ Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Here, we report the draft genome sequence and characterization of the commercial strain Escherichia coli DSM 12242 (=ATCC 13706/60 =NZRM 3262) derived from strain C (ATCC 13706), which is suitable for the isolation of coliphages from environmental and clinical samples.