Project name: Cronobacter sakazakii 696

Description: Cronobacter are food-borne pathogens associated with serious neonatal diseases, including bacteraemia, meningitis and necrotising enterocolitis. The genus is composed of seven species: C. sakazakii, C. malonaticus, C. turicensis, C. dublinensis, C. muytjensii, C. universalis, and C. condimenti. Clinical cases are associated with three species, C. malonaticus, C. turicensis and, in particular, with C. sakazakii multilocus sequence type 4. Thus, it is plausible that virulence determinants have evolved in certain lineages. Methodology/Principal We generated high quality sequence drafts for eleven Cronobacter genomes representing the seven Cronobacter species, including an ST4 strain of C. sakazakii.

Data type: Genome sequencing and assembly

Sample scope: Monoisolate

Release date: 2012-11-21