Draft Genome Sequences of Nine Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains from Kenya

Tracy H Hazen; Michael S Humphrys; John Benjamin Ochieng; Michele Parsons; Cheryl A Bopp; Ciara E O'Reilly; Eric Mintz; David A Rasko

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00582-14

Draft Genome Sequences of Nine Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains from Kenya

Genome Announc. 2014 Jun 12;2(3):e00582-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00582-14.

Authors

Tracy H Hazen¹, Michael S Humphrys¹, John Benjamin Ochieng², Michele Parsons³, Cheryl A Bopp³, Ciara E O'Reilly³, Eric Mintz³, David A Rasko⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Kenya Medical Research Institute/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kisumu, Kenya.
³ Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁴ [email protected].

Abstract

We report here the draft genome sequences of nine enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strains isolated from children in Kenya who died during hospitalization with diarrhea. Each of the isolates possess the EPEC adherence factor (EAF) plasmid encoding the bundle-forming pilus, which is characteristic of EPEC. These isolates represent diverse serogroups and EPEC phylogenomic lineages.

Grants and funding

U19 AI090873/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States