Genome Assembly of Shigella flexneri ATCC 12022, a Quality Control Reference Strain.
H E DaligaultK W DavenportT D MinogueK A Bishop-LillyS M BroomallD C BruceP S ChainS R CoyneT FreitasK G FreyH S GibbonsJ JaissleC-C LoL MeinckeA C MunkC L ReddenC N RosenzweigShannon Lynn JohnsonPublished in: Genome announcements (2014)
Shigella flexneri causes shigellosis, severe and potentially life-threatening diarrhea, and accounts for 18% of shigellosis cases in the United States. Here, we present the 4.51-Mbp genome assembly of S. flexneri ATCC 12022, a quality control and reference strain, in 10 scaffolds.