title: First report on whole-genome shotgun sequences of 23 biochemically indistinguishable clinical Shigella isolates.
abstract: Shigella spp. are a major diarrhoeal disease pathogen worldwide and can cause considerable morbidity and mortality. Notably, limited genome data are available for serogroups/sub-serogroups of Shigella. Here we report the whole-genome shotgun sequences of 23 non-typeable Shigella from stool specimens that biochemically resembled Shigella spp. but were non-typeable with Shigella-specific antisera.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 004, India.
authors.forename: Dhiviya Prabaa
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Muthuirulandi Sethuvel
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 004, India.
authors.forename: Naveen Kumar
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Devanga Ragupathi
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 004, India.
authors.forename: Shalini
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Anandan
authors.affiliation: Department of Child Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 004, India.
authors.forename: Valsan Philip
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Verghese
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 004, India. Electronic address: vbalaji@cmcvellore.ac.in.
authors.forename: Balaji
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Veeraraghavan
mesh_terms: D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000382:microbiology*; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012703:Serotyping; D012760:Shigella / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification
keywords: Antimicrobial resistance; MLST; Non-typeable Shigella; Plasmid; Whole-genome shotgun sequencing