Genome Sequence of Lineage III Listeria Monocytogenes Strain HCC23

Steele, C. L., Donaldson, J. R., Paul, D., Banes, M. M., Arick, M., II, Bridges, S., & Lawrence, M. L. (2011). Genome Sequence of Lineage III Listeria Monocytogenes Strain HCC23. Journal of Bacteriology. American Society for Microbiology. 193(14), 3679-3680. DOI:10.1128/​JB.05236-11.

More than 98% of reported human listeriosis cases are caused by Listeria monocytogenes serotypes within lineages I and II. Serotypes within lineage III (4a and 4c) are commonly isolated from environmental and food specimens. We report the first complete genome sequence of a lineage III isolate, HCC23, which will be used for comparative analysis.