Unknown strain of increasingly prevalent Asian serovar. Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Weltevreden str. HI_N05-537

Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Weltevreden str. SL484. In the 1980s, S. Weltevreden emerged to supplant Enteritidis and Typhimurium as the dominant serovar associated with foodborne nontyphoidal salmonellosis in Malaysia and Thailand, and is common in other countries of southeast Asia. In the U.S., S. Weltevreden was the most common serovar found in seafood mainly imported from Thailand and Malaysia. In the U.S., however, S. Weltevreden has not been isolated from human clinical cases. While the low prevalence of resistance in S. Weltevreden may reflect a low past exposure to antimicrobials, it also raises the possibility that some serovars may be less disposed to acquire resistance. This strain is an unknown isolate. Shotgun sequence was obtained from two libraries - a fosmid library (33-39 kb; 20,930 reads) and a small insert library (4-6 kb; 33,717 reads).