Listeria marthii is a species of bacteria. It is a Gram-positive, motile, facultatively anaerobic, non-spore-forming bacillus. It is non-pathogenic, and non-hemolytic. The species was first isolated from Finger Lakes National Forest in New York. It is named after Elmer H. Marth, a researcher of L. monocytogenes, and was first published in 2010. L. marthii was the first new species of Listeria proposed since 1985.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Bacillales |
| Family: | Listeriaceae |
| Genus: | Listeria |
| Species: | L. marthii
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| Binomial name | |
| Listeria marthii Graves et al. 2010
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Listeria marthii has mainly been isolated from a specific area in the Finger Lakes National Forest. However, L. marthii strains may be mischaracterized as L. innocua due to biochemical similarities between the two species.[2]
References edit
- ^ Graves, L. M.; Helsel, L. O.; Steigerwalt, A. G.; Morey, R. E.; Daneshvar, M. I.; Roof, S. E.; Orsi, R. H.; Fortes, E. D.; Milillo, S. R.; den Bakker, H. C.; Wiedmann, M.; Swaminathan, B.; Sauders, B. D. (2010). "Listeria marthii sp. nov., isolated from the natural environment, Finger Lakes National Forest". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 60 (6): 1280–1288. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.014118-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 19667380.
- ^ Orsi, Renato H.; Wiedmann, Martin (29 April 2016). "Characteristics and distribution of Listeria spp., including Listeria species newly described since 2009". Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 100 (12): 5273–5287. doi:10.1007/s00253-016-7552-2. PMC 4875933. PMID 27129530.
Further reading edit
- Sauders, Brian D., et al. "Diversity of Listeria species in urban and natural environments." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 78.12 (2012): 4420–4433.
- den Bakker, Henk C; Cummings, Craig A; Ferreira, Vania; Vatta, Paolo; Orsi, Renato H; Degoricija, Lovorka; Barker, Melissa; Petrauskene, Olga; Furtado, Manohar R; Wiedmann, Martin (2010). "Comparative genomics of the bacterial genus Listeria: Genome evolution is characterized by limited gene acquisition and limited gene loss". BMC Genomics. 11 (1): 688. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-688. ISSN 1471-2164. PMC 3019230. PMID 21126366.
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