Whole-Genome Shotgun Sequencing of Three Listeria monocytogenes Strains Isolated from a Ready-to-Eat Salad-Producing Facility in Switzerland

Matthias Ziegler; Hyein Jang; Gopal Gopinath; Jule Anna Horlbog; Roger Stephan; Claudia Guldimann

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00547-18

Whole-Genome Shotgun Sequencing of Three Listeria monocytogenes Strains Isolated from a Ready-to-Eat Salad-Producing Facility in Switzerland

Genome Announc. 2018 Jun 28;6(26):e00547-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00547-18.

Authors

Matthias Ziegler¹, Hyein Jang², Gopal Gopinath², Jule Anna Horlbog¹, Roger Stephan¹, Claudia Guldimann³

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
² Center of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, Maryland, USA.
³ Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland claudia.guldimann@uzh.ch.

Abstract

Ready-to-eat (RTE) raw foods harbor the risk of transmitting Listeria monocytogenes from the environment to the consumer. We isolated three strains from a facility producing RTE salad. These strains were used to perform challenge tests on different RTE salad products. Here, we present the shotgun genome sequences of all three of these strains.