Increasingly prevalent serotype in human illness. Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar 4,[5],12:i:- str. CVM23701

Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar 4,[5],12:i:- str. CVM23701. This serotype I strain was first identified in the U.S. in 1998 and became the 14th most common serotype recovered from human illness in 2002. In 1998, this was the 4th most commonly identified serotype in Spain. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns for most I 4,[5],12:i:- isolates suggests evolutionary links with S. typhimurium. Analysis of this related genovar of increasing health importance can help uncover evolutionary aspects of the S. Typhimurium complex, the most common Salmonella pathogen. Sequence was obtained from two libraries - a fosmid library (33-39 kb; 21,576 reads) and a small insert library (4-6 kb; 32,206 reads).