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Listeria monocytogenes

Listeria monocytogenes

Catalogue No.

NCTC 7973

Current Name

Listeria monocytogenes

Type Strain

Reference Strain

Original Strain Reference

58 xxiii

Culture Conditions

Growth Conditions on Solid Media

Blood agar, 37°C, Facultative Anaerobe

Biological and Genomic Info

Susceptibility

Potassium cyanide: -

Fermentation

Glucose: +

Mannitol: -

Serogroup/Serotype

Listeria serovar 1/2a

Antigenic Properties

serovar 1a

Gram Stain Result

Positive

Reduction

Nitric acid: -

Enzyme Tests

Catalase: +

Cytochrome C oxidase: -

Lecithinase / alpha: -

Strain Data

(ATCC 35152) R. A. Webb, London in 1949 / Guinea-pig mesenteric lymph node in 1924 / Serovar 1/2a / Murray, E. G. D. et al. (1926) J. path. Bact. 29, 407 / Murray, E. G. D. (1963) Second Symposium on Listeric Infection, Ed. M. L. Gray, Montana State College, Bozeman / Spontaneously produces non-haemolytic variants due to deletion of part prfA gene which controls a series of genes associated with virulence / Pine, L. et al. J. clin. Microbiol. (1987) 25, 2247 / Gormley et al. (1987) Res. Microbiol. 140, 631 / Leimeister-Wachter, M. & Chakraborty, T. (1989) Infect. Immun. 57, 2350 / Portnoy, D.A. et al. Infect. Immun. (1992) 60, 1263

Colony Appearance

Smooth, Shiny

Additional Info

Accession Date

01/01/1949

Depositor

WEBB R A

Isolated From

mammal, guinea pig mesenteric lymph node

Previous Catalogue Name

Listeria monocytogenes

Applications

Bibliography

MURRAY E G D ET AL 1926 J PATH BACT 29 407;MURRAY E G D 1963 2ND SYMPOSIUM

Extended Bibliography

Morse, R. O'Hanlon, K. Virji, M. Collins, M.D., (1999), Isolation of rifampin-resistant mutants of Listeria monocytogenes and their characterization by rpoB gene sequencing, temperature sensitivity for growth, and interaction with an epithelial cell line, J Clin Microbiol, 2913-9, 1999 Morse, R. O'Hanlon, K. Collins, M.D., (2002), Phylogenetic, amino acid content and indel analyses of the beta subunit of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 1477-84, 2002

Available Formats

  • Ampoule (Bacteria)

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