%0 Journal Article %A Nguyen, Scott Van %A Muthappa, Dechamma Mundanda %A Eshwar, Athmanya K. %A Buckley, James F. %A Murphy, Brenda P. %A Stephan, Roger %A Lehner, Angelika %A Fanning, Séamus %T Comparative genomic insights into Yersinia hibernica – a commonly misidentified Yersinia enterocolitica-like organism %D 2020 %J Microbial Genomics, %V 6 %N 9 %@ 2057-5858 %C e000411 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000411 %K comparative genomics %K zebrafish embryo %K Yersinia enterocolitica %K Yersinia hibernica %I Microbiology Society, %X Food-associated outbreaks linked to enteropathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica are of concern to public health. Pigs and their meat are recognized risk factors for transmission of Y. enterocolitica . This study aimed to describe the comparative genomics of Y. enterocolitica along with a number of misclassified Yersinia isolates, now constituting the recently described Yersinia hibernica . The latter was originally cultured from an environmental sample taken at a pig slaughterhouse. Unique features were identified in the genome of Y. hibernica, including a novel integrative conjugative element (ICE), denoted as ICE Yh-1 contained within a 255 kbp region of plasticity. In addition, a zebrafish embryo infection model was adapted and applied to assess the virulence potential among Yersinia isolates including Y. hibernica . %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/mgen/10.1099/mgen.0.000411