Five Complete Salmonella enterica Serotype Reading Genomes Recovered from Patients in the United States

Between 2018 and 2019, Salmonella enterica serotype Reading caused a large, multistate outbreak linked to contact with raw turkey products in the United States. Here, we provide five Salmonella Reading reference genomes collected from US patients between 2016 and 2018.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: We would like to acknowledge the state and local public health laboratories that participated in the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) and PulseNet. This work was supported through the CDC. The findings and conclusions of this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the CDC. This report is a product of activities approved by the CDC Internal Review Board (approval no. 7172)