Draft Genome Sequences of Two Virulent Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus Swine Isolates from Pennsylvania

Meera Surendran Nair; Maurice Byukusenge; Lingling Li; Ruth H Nissly; Victoria S Cavener; Michele Yon; Rhiannon Barry; Pazhanivel Natesan; Nagaraja Thirumalapura; Deepanker Tewari; Bhushan M Jayarao; Suresh V Kuchipudi

doi:10.1128/MRA.00974-20

Draft Genome Sequences of Two Virulent Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus Swine Isolates from Pennsylvania

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Oct 15;9(42):e00974-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00974-20.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Animal Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Department of Pathology, Madras Veterinary College, Chennai, India.
⁴ Pennsylvania Veterinary Laboratory, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁵ Animal Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA skuchipudi@psu.edu.
⁶ Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.

Abstract

Draft genome sequences of two outbreak isolates of Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus from a Pennsylvania swine herd affected with high mortality and morbidity are reported here. The genome analysis revealed that the isolates are closely related to a virulent strain originally identified in China.