Draft Genome Sequences of Listeria monocytogenes, Isolated from Fresh Leaf Vegetables in Owerri City, Nigeria

Ogueri Nwaiwu; Alexandra Moura; Pierre Thouvenot; Catherine Rees; Alexandre Leclercq; Marc Lecuit

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00354-17

Draft Genome Sequences of Listeria monocytogenes, Isolated from Fresh Leaf Vegetables in Owerri City, Nigeria

Genome Announc. 2017 Jun 1;5(22):e00354-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00354-17.

Authors

Ogueri Nwaiwu¹, Alexandra Moura^{2

3}, Pierre Thouvenot⁴, Catherine Rees¹, Alexandre Leclercq⁴, Marc Lecuit^{2

3

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
² Institut Pasteur, National Reference Center and WHO Collaborating Center for Listeria, Paris, France amoura@pasteur.fr marc.lecuit@pasteur.fr.
³ Institut Pasteur, Biology of Infection Unit, Paris, France.
⁴ Institut Pasteur, National Reference Center and WHO Collaborating Center for Listeria, Paris, France.
⁵ Inserm U1117, Paris, France.
⁶ Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Imagine, Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, APHP, Paris, France.

Abstract

Here, we report the draft genome sequences of three Listeria monocytogenes isolates from fresh leaves collected in Nigeria, belonging to sequence types ST5 and ST155 (sublineages SL5 and SL155, respectively).