Draft genome of a human-derived pks+ E. coli that caused spontaneous disseminated infection in a mouse

TL;DR

This paper reports the genome of a human E. coli strain that caused infection in mice when transplanted.

Contribution

The study provides a new genomic resource of an E. coli strain that spontaneously caused systemic infection in mice.

Findings

A human-derived E. coli strain was found to disseminate from the gut to the kidneys in mice.

The strain was isolated from a healthy human microbiota sample and is pks+.

Abstract

We present the draft genome of a novel human-derived Escherichia coli strain isolated from a healthy control human microbiota that, when put into a mouse, spontaneously disseminated from the gut to the kidneys.