Discovery of a novel sub-lineage of multi-drug resistant Shigella flexneri in Southern California.

"amr genes and plasmid replicons were identified using resfinder and plasmidfinder ( https://cge cbs dtu dk/services ) ucla689 wgs data were deposited to national center for biotechnology information (ncbi) sequence read archive (sra) (bioproject id prjna797477)."

"Declaration of competing interest: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the California Department of Public Health or the California Health and Human Services Agency."

"Funding This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (K01TW012170 to PCA) and the University of California Los Angeles Department of Pathology and Medicine."