Draft Genome Sequences of Histamine-Producing Morganella psychrotolerans Strains

Kristin Bjornsdottir-Butler; Maria Sanchez Leon; Ronald A Benner Jr

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01001-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Histamine-Producing Morganella psychrotolerans Strains

Genome Announc. 2016 Sep 15;4(5):e01001-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01001-16.

Authors

Kristin Bjornsdottir-Butler¹, Maria Sanchez Leon², Ronald A Benner Jr³

Affiliations

¹ FDA, Division of Seafood Science and Technology, Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory, Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA kristin.butler@fda.hhs.gov.
² FDA, Division of Public Health Informatics and Analytics, College Park, Maryland, USA.
³ FDA, Division of Seafood Science and Technology, Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory, Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA.

Abstract

Histamine-producing bacteria are responsible for scombrotoxin (histamine) fish poisoning, a leading cause of fish poisoning in the United States. We report here the first draft genomes of three histamine-producing Morganella psychrotolerans strains, isolated from tuna and mahi-mahi.

Grants and funding

This work was conducted at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. No outside financial support was received for this work.