Draft Genome Sequences of 25 Listeria monocytogenes Isolates Associated with Human Clinical Listeriosis in Ireland

Amy O'Callaghan; Amber Hilliard; Ciara A Morgan; Eamonn P Culligan; Dara Leong; Niall DeLappe; Colin Hill; Kieran Jordan; Martin Cormican; Cormac G M Gahan

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00184-17

Draft Genome Sequences of 25 Listeria monocytogenes Isolates Associated with Human Clinical Listeriosis in Ireland

Genome Announc. 2017 May 11;5(19):e00184-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00184-17.

Authors

Amy O'Callaghan^{1

2}, Amber Hilliard^{1

2}, Ciara A Morgan^{1

2}, Eamonn P Culligan^{1

2}, Dara Leong³, Niall DeLappe⁴, Colin Hill^{1

2}, Kieran Jordan³, Martin Cormican⁵, Cormac G M Gahan^{6

2

7}

Affiliations

¹ APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
² School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
³ Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Cork, Ireland.
⁴ National Salmonella, Shigella and Listeria Reference Laboratory, Galway University Hospitals, Galway, Ireland.
⁵ School of Medicine, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
⁶ APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland c.gahan@ucc.ie.
⁷ School of Pharmacy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

Abstract

Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive opportunistic pathogen that is the causative agent of listeriosis. Here, we report the draft genome sequences of 25 L. monocytogenes strains isolated from patients with clinical listeriosis in the Republic of Ireland between 2013 and 2015.