Novel, Non-Pathogenic Listeria Species Isolated from Cheese
A recent research project has discovered a new species of Listeria. The findings have been published in the peer-reviewed journal International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.
During a microbial assessment of cow milk cheese products in Nigeria, researchers detected a Listeria isolate that could not be assigned to any known species. The researchers compared whole genome sequencing analyses of the 26 known Listeria species against the isolate, which confirmed that the isolate does not belong to any known taxon of the genus Listeria.