Complete Genome Sequences of Two Phage-Like Plasmids Carrying the CTX-M-15 Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Gene

Anna Colavecchio; Julie Jeukens; Luca Freschi; Jean-Guillaume Edmond Rheault; Irena Kukavica-Ibrulj; Roger C Levesque; Jeffrey LeJeune; Lawrence Goodridge

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00102-17

Complete Genome Sequences of Two Phage-Like Plasmids Carrying the CTX-M-15 Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Gene

Genome Announc. 2017 May 11;5(19):e00102-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00102-17.

Authors

Anna Colavecchio¹, Julie Jeukens², Luca Freschi², Jean-Guillaume Edmond Rheault², Irena Kukavica-Ibrulj², Roger C Levesque², Jeffrey LeJeune³, Lawrence Goodridge⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Food Safety and Quality Program, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada.
² Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
³ Food Animal Health Research Program, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, USA.
⁴ Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Food Safety and Quality Program, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada lawrence.goodridge@mcgill.ca.

Abstract

Two similar phage-like plasmids carrying CTX-M-15 resistance cassettes were identified from two environmental Escherichia coli isolates. They demonstrate strong nucleotide sequence identity to the phage-like plasmid pECOH89 and Salmonella bacteriophage SSU5.