Draft Genome Sequence of trh+ Vibrio parahaemolyticus VP-49, Isolated from Seafood Harvested along the Mangalore Coast, India

Ballamoole Krishna Kumar; Vijaya Kumar Deekshit; Praveen Rai; Volker Gurtler; Iddya Karunasagar; Indrani Karunasagar

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00607-14

Draft Genome Sequence of trh+ Vibrio parahaemolyticus VP-49, Isolated from Seafood Harvested along the Mangalore Coast, India

Genome Announc. 2014 Jun 26;2(3):e00607-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00607-14.

Authors

Ballamoole Krishna Kumar¹, Vijaya Kumar Deekshit¹, Praveen Rai¹, Volker Gurtler², Iddya Karunasagar³, Indrani Karunasagar⁴

Affiliations

¹ UNESCO-MIRCEN for Marine Biotechnology, Department of Fisheries Microbiology, Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences, University, College of Fisheries, Mangalore, India.
² School of Applied Sciences, Bundoora Campus RMIT University, Bundoora, Australia.
³ FAO Consultant, Subba-Meena, Jayanagar, Mangalore, India.
⁴ UNESCO-MIRCEN for Marine Biotechnology, Department of Fisheries Microbiology, Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences, University, College of Fisheries, Mangalore, India karuna8sagar@yahoo.com.

Abstract

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a seafood-borne pathogen autochthonous to the marine and estuarine ecosystem, which is responsible for gastroenteritis due to the consumption of contaminated raw seafood. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of V. parahaemolyticus VP-49, isolated from seafood, to identify the different virulence attributes and to study the mechanisms that enhance its environmental fitness.