Molecular Characterization of Multidrug-Resistant Yersinia enterocolitica From Foodborne Outbreaks in Sweden.

ABSTRACT: The foodborne pathogen Yersinia enterocolitica causes gastrointestinal infections worldwide. In the spring of 2019, the Swedish Public Health Agency and Statens Serum Institut in Denmark independently identified an outbreak caused by Yersinia enterocolitica 4/O:3 that after sequence comparison turned out to be a cross-border outbreak. A trace-back investigation suggested shipments of fresh prewashed spinach from Italy as a common source for the outbreak. Here, we determined the genome sequences of five Y. enterocolitica clinical isolates during the Swedish outbreak using a combination of Illumina HiSeq short-read and Nanopore Technologies' MinION long-read whole-genome sequencing. WGS results showed that all clinical strains have a fully assembled chromosome of approxi

SUBMITTER: Karlsson PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8155512 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature