Listeria seeligeri

Listeria seeligeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Division: Firmicutes
Class: Bacilli
Order: Bacillales
Family: Listeriaceae
Genus: Listeria
Species: L. seeligeri
Binomial name
Listeria seeligeri
Rocourt et al. 1983

Listeria seeligeri is a species of bacteria. It is a Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, motile, non-spore-forming bacillus. It is non-pathongenic. The species was first isolated from from plants, soil, and animal feces in Europe. The species was first proposed in 1983, and is named after Heinz P. R. Seeliger.[1] Seeliger first proposed the species L. ivanovii, and published extensively on members of the Listeria genus.[2]

L. seeligeri is one of only 3 species of Listeria that is hemolytic, along with L. ivanovii and L. monocytogenes.[3]

References

  1. Jocelyne Rocourt and Patrick A. D. Grimont. Listeria welshimeri sp. nov. and Listeria seeligeri sp. nov. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, Oct. 1983, p. 866-869, Vol. 33. No. 4.
  2. Seeliger HPR, Rocourt J, Schrettenbrunner A, Grimont PAD, Jones D. (1984). "Listeria ivanovii sp. nov." (PDF). International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 34 (3): 336–7. doi:10.1099/00207713-34-3-336.
  3. Daniel Weller, Alexis Andrus, Martin Wiedmann and Henk C. den Bakker. Listeria booriae sp. nov. and Listeria newyorkensis sp. nov., from food processing environments in the USA. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2015), 65, 286–292.
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