title: Enterobacter cloacae strain MS7884B
organism: Enterobacter cloacae
description: Whole genome sequencing (WGS) was used to investigate an outbreak of blaIMP4 carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter cloacae within an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Burns facility at a Brisbane hospital in 2015. All isolates were initially sequenced with Illumina paired-end sequencing and appeared to contain two large plasmids. Due to spontaneous plasmid loss we sequenced two independent colony picks from the representative MS7884 strain, and sequenced both to completion on the Pacific Biosciences RSII platform. MS7884A and MS7884B are high-quality reference genomes that are otherwise identical except for carriage of a blaIMP4+ ~330-kb IncHI2 plasmid and an untypable ~126-kb plasmid, respectively.