Whole-Genome Sequence of Listeria newyorkensis, Isolated from River Water in Japan

Chihiro Ohshima; Hajime Takahashi; Ayaka Nakamura; Takashi Kuda; Bon Kimura

doi:10.1128/MRA.00488-19

Whole-Genome Sequence of Listeria newyorkensis, Isolated from River Water in Japan

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Aug 15;8(33):e00488-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00488-19.

Authors

Chihiro Ohshima¹, Hajime Takahashi², Ayaka Nakamura¹, Takashi Kuda¹, Bon Kimura¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Marine Science, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Marine Science, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan hajime@kaiyodai.ac.jp.

Abstract

Listeria newyorkensis is a bacterium that was recently classified into the genus Listeria So far, there are only two reports of isolation of L. newyorkensis from food. Here, we report the whole-genome sequence of L. newyorkensis strain 2-1, isolated from river water in Japan.