Full-Genome Sequence of Listeria monocytogenes Strain H34, Isolated from a Newborn with Sepsis in Uruguay

Francis Muchaamba; Claudia Guldimann; Taurai Tasara; María Inés Mota; Valeria Braga; Gustavo Varela; Gabriela Algorta; Jochen Klumpp; Marco Jermini; Roger Stephan

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00544-17

Full-Genome Sequence of Listeria monocytogenes Strain H34, Isolated from a Newborn with Sepsis in Uruguay

Genome Announc. 2017 Jun 15;5(24):e00544-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00544-17.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
² Departamento de Bacteriología y Virología, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Higiene, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
³ Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Health, Cantonal Laboratory Ticino, Division of Public Health, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
⁵ Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland [email protected].

Abstract

The foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes causes severe disease mainly in the vulnerable populations of the young, old, pregnant, and immunocompromised. Here, we present the genome sequence of L. monocytogenes H34, a serotype 1/2b, lineage I, sequence type 489 (ST489) strain, isolated from a neonatal sepsis case in Uruguay.