High-quality whole-genome sequences for 59 historical Shigella strains generated with PacBio sequencing.

Authors: Kim, Justin and Lindsey, Rebecca L and Garcia-Toledo, Lisley and Loparev, Vladimir N and Rowe, Lori A and Batra, Dhwani and Juieng, Phalasy and Stoneburg, Devon and Martin, Haley and Knipe, Kristen and Smith, Peyton and Strockbine, Nancy

Shigella spp. are enteric pathogens that cause shigellosis. We report here the high-quality whole-genome sequences of 59 historical Shigella strains that represent the four species and a variety of serotypes.

Journal: Genome announcements
DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.00282-18
Year: 2018

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