Draft Genome Sequence of Enterococcus faecalis Strain OB15, a Probiotic Strain Recently Isolated from Tunisian Rigouta Cheese

Olfa Baccouri; Amine M Boukerb; Flore Nilly; Mélyssa Cambronel; Issam Smaali; Marc G J Feuilloley; Ferid Abidi; Nathalie Connil

doi:10.1128/MRA.01433-19

Draft Genome Sequence of Enterococcus faecalis Strain OB15, a Probiotic Strain Recently Isolated from Tunisian Rigouta Cheese

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Apr 9;9(15):e01433-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01433-19.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Bioactive Molecules, National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia.
² Laboratoire de Microbiologie Signaux et Microenvironnement, EA 4312, Université de Rouen Normandie, Normandie Université, Évreux, France amine.boukerb@univ-rouen.fr.
³ Laboratoire de Microbiologie Signaux et Microenvironnement, EA 4312, Université de Rouen Normandie, Normandie Université, Évreux, France.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Enterococcus faecalis OB15 is a probiotic strain that was isolated from rigouta, a popular traditional Tunisian fermented cheese. We report here the draft genome sequence of this strain, consisting of 2,912,159 bp, with an average G+C content of 37.49%.