First report on whole-genome shotgun sequences of 23 biochemically indistinguishable clinical Shigella isolates

Dhiviya Prabaa Muthuirulandi Sethuvel; Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi; Shalini Anandan; Valsan Philip Verghese; Balaji Veeraraghavan

doi:10.1016/j.jgar.2016.12.009

First report on whole-genome shotgun sequences of 23 biochemically indistinguishable clinical Shigella isolates

J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 2017 Jun:9:32-33. doi: 10.1016/j.jgar.2016.12.009. Epub 2017 Feb 17.

Authors

Dhiviya Prabaa Muthuirulandi Sethuvel¹, Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi¹, Shalini Anandan¹, Valsan Philip Verghese², Balaji Veeraraghavan³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 004, India.
² Department of Child Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 004, India.
³ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 004, India. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 28219825
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2016.12.009

Abstract

Shigella spp. are a major diarrhoeal disease pathogen worldwide and can cause considerable morbidity and mortality. Notably, limited genome data are available for serogroups/sub-serogroups of Shigella. Here we report the whole-genome shotgun sequences of 23 non-typeable Shigella from stool specimens that biochemically resembled Shigella spp. but were non-typeable with Shigella-specific antisera.

Keywords: Antimicrobial resistance; MLST; Non-typeable Shigella; Plasmid; Whole-genome shotgun sequencing.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Bacterial Typing Techniques
Dysentery, Bacillary / microbiology*
Genome, Bacterial*
Humans
Sequence Analysis, DNA*
Serotyping
Shigella / classification
Shigella / genetics*
Shigella / isolation & purification