Wild birds, particularly silver gulls (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) that nest near anthropogenic sites, often harbour bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics, including those considered of clinical importance. Here, we describe the whole genome sequence of Escherichia coli isolate CE1867 from a silver gull chick sampled in 2012 that hosted an I1 pST25 plasmid with blaSHV-12, a β-lactamase gene that encodes the ability to hydrolyze oxyimino β-lactams, and other antibiotic resistance genes. Isolate CE1867 is an ST297 isolate, a phylogroup B1 lineage, and clustered with a large ST297 O130:H11 clade, which carry Shiga toxin genes. The I1 plasmid belongs to plasmid sequence type 25 and is notable for its carriage of an atypical sul3-class 1 integron with mefB∆260, a structure most frequently reported in Australia from swine. This integron is a typical example of a Tn21-derived element that captured sul3 in place of the standard sul1 structure. Interestingly, the mercury resistance (mer) module of Tn21 is missing and has been replaced with Tn2-blaTEM-1 and a blaSHV-12 encoding module flanked by direct copies of IS26. Comparisons to similar plasmids, however, demonstrate a closely related family of ARG-carrying plasmids that all host variants of the sul3-associated integron with conserved Tn21 insertion points and a variable presence of both mer and mefB truncations, but predominantly mefB∆260.

Australian Institute for Microbiology and Infection University of Technology Sydney Ultimo NSW 2007 Australia

CEITEC VETUNI University of Veterinary Sciences Brno 61242 Brno Czech Republic

Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology University of Veterinary Sciences Brno 61242 Brno Czech Republic

Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology Institute of Laboratory Medicine University Hospital Brno 62500 Brno Czech Republic

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