Genomic characterization of multidrug-resistant <i>Escherichia albertii</i> of fish origin-first isolation and insights into a potential food safety threat.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Escherichia albertii is an emerging food-borne pathogen with zoonotic potential which is often under-reported due to misidentifications.

Materials and methods

The current study identified E. albertii from retail fish sold in market which was confirmed by phenotypic (colorless colonies on Xylose-Rhamnose-Melibiose MacConkey Agar), genotypic (dual target uniplex PCR-based detection) and genomic methods (CheckM analysis). In this paper we report the phenotypic characters of the isolate and genomic features such as resistome, virulome and mobilome followed by in silico O and H antigen based typing and comparative phylogenomics using various tools (RAST, RGI v6.0.0, ABRicate v1.0.1, PathogenFinder v1.1, PlasmidFinder v2.0, BacAnt v3.3.1, Phigaro

SUBMITTER: Srinivas K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11903708 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature