High-Quality Draft Genome Sequences for Four Drug-Resistant or Outbreak-Associated Shigella sonnei Strains Generated with PacBio Sequencing and Whole-Genome Maps

Rebecca L Lindsey; Dhwani Batra; Lori Rowe; Vladimir N Loparev; Phalasy Juieng; Lisley Garcia-Toledo; Amelia Bicknese; Devon Stripling; Haley Martin; Jessica Chen; Nancy Strockbine; Eija Trees

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00906-17

High-Quality Draft Genome Sequences for Four Drug-Resistant or Outbreak-Associated Shigella sonnei Strains Generated with PacBio Sequencing and Whole-Genome Maps

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 31;5(35):e00906-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00906-17.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA [email protected].
² Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
³ Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
⁴ IHRC, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Abstract

Drug-resistant Shigella sonnei poses a clinical and public health challenge. We report here the high-quality draft whole-genome sequences of four outbreak-associated S. sonnei isolates; three were resistant to two or more antibiotics, and one was resistant to streptomycin only.