Whole-Genome Sequences of Six Salmonella enterica Serovar Bovismorbificans Isolates Associated with a 2011 Multistate Hummus-Borne Outbreak

Gopal Gopinath; Junia Jean-Gilles Beaubrun; Chris Grim; Morris Blaylock; Reginald Blackwell; Sosina Merid; Alpha Diallo; Darcy Hanes

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01239-13

Whole-Genome Sequences of Six Salmonella enterica Serovar Bovismorbificans Isolates Associated with a 2011 Multistate Hummus-Borne Outbreak

Genome Announc. 2014 Mar 6;2(2):e01239-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01239-13.

Authors

Gopal Gopinath¹, Junia Jean-Gilles Beaubrun, Chris Grim, Morris Blaylock, Reginald Blackwell, Sosina Merid, Alpha Diallo, Darcy Hanes

Affiliation

¹ U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment, Division of Virulence Assessment, Laurel, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

We present six draft genome sequences of Salmonella enterica serovar Bovismorbificans from isolates associated with the 2011 hummus-borne multistate outbreak. All six genome sequences indicate the presence of two plasmids, one of which demonstrates similarity to the 93-kb pSLT2 IncF-type plasmid of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.