Draft Genome Sequences of Tetracycline-Resistant Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Isolates from Food

Khulud Alotaibi; Lijun Hu; Javier Revollo; Jing Han; Guodong Zhang; Ashraf A Khan

doi:10.1128/mra.00218-22

Draft Genome Sequences of Tetracycline-Resistant Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Isolates from Food

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2022 Jul 21;11(7):e0021822. doi: 10.1128/mra.00218-22. Epub 2022 Jun 13.

Authors

Khulud Alotaibi^{1

2

3}, Lijun Hu⁴, Javier Revollo⁵, Jing Han¹, Guodong Zhang⁴, Ashraf A Khan¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Microbiology, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, USA.
² University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
³ Department of Biology, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Division of Microbiology, Office of Regulatory Science, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA.
⁵ Division of Genetic and Molecular Toxicology, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, USA.

Abstract

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is a foodborne pathogen transmitted from animal to humans through contaminated food. Here, we report the draft genome sequences of six STEC isolates (six serotypes) from food (cheese, coriander, and pea protein pellets) in different countries; these isolates were resistant to tetracycline, with MIC values ranging from <1.5 to 256 μg/mL.