Draft Genome Sequences of 510 Listeria monocytogenes Strains from Food Isolates and Human Listeriosis Cases from Northern Italy

Sara Lomonaco; Silvia Gallina; Virginia Filipello; Maria Sanchez Leon; George John Kastanis; Marc Allard; Eric Brown; Ettore Amato; Mirella Pontello; Lucia Decastelli

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01276-17

Draft Genome Sequences of 510 Listeria monocytogenes Strains from Food Isolates and Human Listeriosis Cases from Northern Italy

Genome Announc. 2018 Jan 18;6(3):e01276-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01276-17.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy sara.lomonaco@fda.hhs.gov.
² Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA.
³ Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte Liguria e Valle d'Aosta, Turin, Italy.
⁴ Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy.
⁵ Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna, Brescia, Italy.
⁶ Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.

Abstract

Listeriosis outbreaks are frequently multistate/multicountry outbreaks, underlining the importance of molecular typing data for several diverse and well-characterized isolates. Large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies on Listeria monocytogenes isolates from non-U.S. locations have been limited. Herein, we describe the draft genome sequences of 510 L. monocytogenes isolates from northern Italy from different sources.