AnCo3, a New Member of the Emerging Family of Phage-Like Plasmids

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

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00110-17

AnCo3, a New Member of the Emerging Family of Phage-Like Plasmids

Genome Announc. 2017 May 11;5(19):e00110-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00110-17.

Authors

Anna Colavecchio¹, Julie Jeukens², Luca Freschi², Jean-Guillaume Edmond Rheault², Irena Kukavica-Ibrulj², Roger Levesque², Lawrence Goodridge³

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 Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Food Safety and Quality Program, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada lawrence.goodridge@mcgill.ca.

Abstract

A phage-like plasmid isolated from a clinical isolate of Salmonella enterica serovar Derby has strong nucleotide sequence identity to the phage-like plasmids pSTM_phi isolated from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium L495, AnCo1 and AnCo2 from Escherichia coli 243 and Escherichia coli 244, and the virulent Salmonella-specific SSU5 bacteriophage.