Draft Genome Sequences of 62 Staphylococcus aureus Isolates Associated with Four Foodborne Outbreaks in the United States

Jennifer Hait; Guojie Cao; Maria Balkey; George Kastanis; Phillip Curry; Lanlan Yin; James Pettengill; Sandra Tallent

doi:10.1128/MRA.00118-21

Draft Genome Sequences of 62 Staphylococcus aureus Isolates Associated with Four Foodborne Outbreaks in the United States

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Mar 11;10(10):e00118-21. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00118-21.

Authors

Jennifer Hait^#¹, Guojie Cao^#¹, Maria Balkey¹, George Kastanis¹, Phillip Curry¹, Lanlan Yin², James Pettengill², Sandra Tallent³

Affiliations

¹ Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Regulatory Science, Division of Microbiology, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA.
² Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Analytics and Outreach, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA.
³ Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Regulatory Science, Division of Microbiology, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA [email protected].

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus bacteria are ranked among the top five foodborne pathogens in the United States. Here, we report the draft genome sequences of 62 S. aureus isolates that originated from the manufacturing environment of an Illinois bakery and were associated with outbreaks between 2010 and 2011 in the United States.