High-quality whole-genome sequences for 21 enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains generated with PacBio sequencing.

Authors: Smith, Peyton and Lindsey, Rebecca L and Rowe, Lori A and Batra, Dhwani and Stripling, Devon and Garcia-Toledo, Lisley and Drapeau, Daniel and Knipe, Kristen and Strockbine, Nancy

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is an important diarrheagenic pathogen. We report here the high-quality whole-genome sequences of 21 ETEC strains isolated from patients in the United States, international diarrheal surveillance studies, and cruise ship outbreaks.

Journal: Genome announcements
DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.01311-17
Year: 2018

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