Complete Genome Sequences of Three Clinical Listeria monocytogenes Sequence Type 8 Strains from Recent German Listeriosis Outbreaks

Martin A Fischer; Andrea Thürmer; Antje Flieger; Sven Halbedel

doi:10.1128/MRA.00303-21

Complete Genome Sequences of Three Clinical Listeria monocytogenes Sequence Type 8 Strains from Recent German Listeriosis Outbreaks

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 May 6;10(18):e00303-21. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00303-21.

Authors

Martin A Fischer¹, Andrea Thürmer², Antje Flieger³, Sven Halbedel³

Affiliations

¹ FG11 Division of Enteropathogenic Bacteria and Legionella, German Consultant Laboratory for L. monocytogenes, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany.
² MF2 Genome Sequencing, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
³ FG11 Division of Enteropathogenic Bacteria and Legionella, German Consultant Laboratory for L. monocytogenes, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany fliegera@rki.de halbedels@rki.de.

Abstract

We report here the closed genome sequences of three clinical Listeria monocytogenes strains of multilocus sequence typing (MLST) sequence type 8 (ST8). These strains are representatives of three separate listeriosis outbreak clusters (Alpha1, Pi4, and Sigma1) that affected Germany between 2012 and 2020.