Staphylococcus aureus genomes deposited by IZSLER (Brescia, Italy) within the One Health European Joint Programme (OHEJP) CARE-project

This project is part of the One Health European Joint Project CARE (Cross-sectoral framework for quality Assurance Resources for countries in the European Union). Data on occurrence of antibiotic resistance and the use of antibiotics in animals and humans are now perfectly well integrated in a One-Health Action Plan at European level. There is still a lack in providing sets of reference materials for microbiological testing. It is time now set up a repository of resources coupling strains, genomes, and associated data that would represent the great variety of resistance mechanisms reported among food-borne zoonotic pathogens. The network of EJP partners will deliver referenced panels of strains usable for antibiotic resistance prevention, surveillance or control studies, development of innovative diagnostic tests, and laboratory challenges of novel antibiotic compounds. This study groups genomic sequences of pathogenic E. coli strains made available by the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia-Romagna, Brescia, Italy.