Whole-Genome Sequencing of Salmonella enterica Serovar Infantis and Kentucky Isolates Obtained from Layer Poultry Farms in Ecuador

William Calero-Cáceres; Joyce Villacís; Maria Ishida; Elton Burnett; Christian Vinueza-Burgos

doi:10.1128/MRA.00091-20

Whole-Genome Sequencing of Salmonella enterica Serovar Infantis and Kentucky Isolates Obtained from Layer Poultry Farms in Ecuador

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Mar 26;9(13):e00091-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00091-20.

Authors

William Calero-Cáceres^{1

2}, Joyce Villacís³, Maria Ishida⁴, Elton Burnett⁵, Christian Vinueza-Burgos⁶

Affiliations

¹ UTA-RAM-One Health, Centro de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Técnica de Ambato (UTA), Ambato, Ecuador wcaleroc@hotmail.com cvinueza@uce.edu.ec.
² Faculty of Science and Engineering in Food and Biotechnology, Universidad Técnica de Ambato (UTA), Ambato, Ecuador.
³ UTA-RAM-One Health, Centro de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Técnica de Ambato (UTA), Ambato, Ecuador.
⁴ New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, Food Laboratory, Albany, New York, USA.
⁵ Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
⁶ Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador wcaleroc@hotmail.com cvinueza@uce.edu.ec.

Abstract

Five strains of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Infantis and two strains of S. enterica subsp. enterica serovar Kentucky isolated in 2017 from Ecuadorian layer poultry farms were sequenced using Illumina MiSeq technology. These isolates were collected on layer farms in central Ecuador, one of the most important areas of egg production in the country. The genome sequences of these isolates show valuable information for surveillance purposes.