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Research Project: Intervention Strategies to Control Salmonella and Campylobacter During Poultry Processing

Location: Poultry Microbiological Safety and Processing Research Unit

Title: Draft genome sequences of fifty-eight isolates of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli from domestic ducks

Author
item Meinersmann, Richard
item Robinson-Mckenzie, Tanisha
item McMillan, Elizabeth

Submitted to: Microbiology Resource Announcements
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 12/4/2024
Publication Date: 2/27/2025
Citation: Meinersmann, R.J., Robinson-Mckenzie, T.S., Mcmillan, E.A. 2025. Draft genome sequences of fifty-eight isolates of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli from domestic ducks. Microbiology Resource Announcements. e00903-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00903-24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00903-24

Interpretive Summary: Campylobacter coli and C. jejuni are very similar species to each other and are a leading cause of diarrheal disease in humans. A common source of infection of humans is from poultry meat products. Ducks (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus) have been shown to carry Campylobacter, but their role in human transmission is not well established. Searches of National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) databases and pubMLST databases (https://pubmlst.org/) produced few genomic DNA sequences identified as being from Campylobacter from domestic ducks in the United States, most are from wild ducks largely from Europe and fewer from the US. The goal of this announcement is to describe DNA sequences to help characterize isolates from ducks for comparisons with Campylobacter spp. isolates from other food animals.

Technical Abstract: We present the draft genomic sequences of fifty-eight isolates of Campylobacter spp. (32 C. coli and 26 C. jejuni) isolated from domestic ducks (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus). This is a substantial increase in the number of publicly available genomic sequences of Campylobacter isolated from farm ducks in the United States.