Hybrid genomes of three multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Newport (REPJJP01) isolates from exotic captive felids in North Dakota, USA

Three Salmonella enterica isolates from captive exotic felines were sequenced on Illumina and Oxford Nanopore platforms. The hybrid assemblies showed the strains to be the persisting multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Newport strain REPJJP01. Hosts were two snow leopards ( Panthera uncia ) and a Pallas’s cat ( Otocolobus manul ) from North Dakota zoological facilities.