Draft Genome Sequence of a 94-Year-Old Listeria monocytogenes Isolate, SLCC208

Patrick Hyden; Ariane Pietzka; Franz Allerberger; Burkhard Springer; Christoph Sensen; Werner Ruppitsch

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01572-15

Draft Genome Sequence of a 94-Year-Old Listeria monocytogenes Isolate, SLCC208

Genome Announc. 2016 Jan 21;4(1):e01572-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01572-15.

Authors

Patrick Hyden¹, Ariane Pietzka², Franz Allerberger², Burkhard Springer², Christoph Sensen³, Werner Ruppitsch⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Graz, Austria.
² Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Graz, Austria.
³ Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.
⁴ Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Graz, Austria Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria werner.ruppitsch@ages.at.

Abstract

We report here the draft genome sequence of Listeria monocytogenes strain SLCC208 from Seeliger's historical Special Listeria Culture Collection, initially cultured from a human case in France in 1921. This is, to our knowledge, the oldest L. monocytogenes isolate available and may be useful for comparative genomic studies of L. monocytogenes.

Grants and funding

This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.