Draft Genome Sequences of Two Historical Listeria monocytogenes Strains from Human Listeriosis Cases in 1933

Vikrant Dutta; Sangmi Lee; Todd J Ward; Nathane Orwig; Eric Altermann; Dereje Jima; Cameron Parsons; Sophia Kathariou

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01364-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Two Historical Listeria monocytogenes Strains from Human Listeriosis Cases in 1933

Genome Announc. 2016 Dec 8;4(6):e01364-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01364-16.

Authors

Vikrant Dutta¹, Sangmi Lee², Todd J Ward³, Nathane Orwig³, Eric Altermann^{4

5}, Dereje Jima^{6

7}, Cameron Parsons², Sophia Kathariou²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA vikrant.dutta@gmail.com.
² Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
³ USDA-ARS, Peoria, Illinois, USA.
⁴ Rumen Microbiology, AgResearch Grasslands, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
⁵ Riddet Institute, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
⁶ Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
⁷ Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

Abstract

We report here the draft genome sequences of two Listeria monocytogenes strains from some of the earliest reported cases of human listeriosis in North America. The strains were isolated in 1933 from patients in Massachusetts and Connecticut, USA, and belong to the widely disseminated hypervirulent clonal complex 1 (CC1) and CC2.

Grants and funding

P30 ES025128/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States