Genome Sequence and Annotation of a Human Infection Isolate of Escherichia coli O26:H11 Involved in a Raw Milk Cheese Outbreak

Wessam Galia , P. Mariani-Kurkdjian , Estelle Loukiadis (1) , S. Blanquet-Diot , Françoise Leriche (2) , H. Brugère , A. Shima , E. Oswald , B. Cournoyer , Delphine Thevenot-Sergentet (1)

1 LEM - Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne - UMR 5557
2 CALITYSS - CALITYSS, Typicité des produits alimentaires

The consumption of raw milk cheese can expose populations to Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC). We report here the genome sequence of an E. coli O26:H11 strain isolated from humans during the first raw milk cheese outbreak described in France (2005).

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Wessam Galia, P. Mariani-Kurkdjian, Estelle Loukiadis, S. Blanquet-Diot, Françoise Leriche, et al.. Genome Sequence and Annotation of a Human Infection Isolate of Escherichia coli O26:H11 Involved in a Raw Milk Cheese Outbreak. Genome Announcements, 2015, 3 (1), pp.e01568-14. ⟨10.1128/genomeA.01568-14⟩. ⟨hal-02487308⟩