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SUBMITTER: Maldonado-Puga S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6606900 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maldonado-Puga Samantha S Meza-Segura Mario M Becerra Adriana A Zaidi Mussaret B MB Estrada-Garcia Teresa T
Microbiology resource announcements 20190703 27
<i>Escherichia albertii</i> is an emerging human enteropathogen. We report the draft genome sequence of <i>E. albertii</i> strain Mex-12/320a, isolated from an infant with diarrhea. The presence of the pathogenic island O122/IE6 and the <i>nleA</i> gene, previously found in diarrheagenic enteropathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> strains, suggests that <i>E. albertii</i> may cause acute diarrhea. ...[more]