Listeria weihenstephanensis

Listeria weihenstephanensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	"Firmicutes"
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Bacillales
Family:	Listeriaceae
Genus:	Listeria
Species:	L. weihenstephanensis
Binomial name
	Listeria weihenstephanensis; Halter et al. 2013

Listeria weihenstephanensis is a species of bacteria. It is a Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, non-motile, non-spore-forming bacillus. It is non-pathongenic and non-hemolytic. It was discovered in a Lemna trisulca plant in a pond in Bavaria, Germany. The species name reflects the region in which it was first isolated, and was first published in 2013.^[1]^[2]

References[]

^ Evi Lang Halter, Klaus Neuhaus and Siegfried Scherer. Listeria weihenstephanensis sp. nov., isolated from the water plant Lemna trisulca taken from a freshwater pond. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2013), 63, 641–647.
^ Weller, D., Andrus, A., Wiedmann, M. and den Bakker, H.C., 2015. Listeria booriae sp. nov. and Listeria newyorkensis sp. nov., from food processing environments in the USA. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 65(1), pp.286-292.

External links[]

Type strain of Listeria weihenstephanensis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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[1] Evi Lang Halter, Klaus Neuhaus and Siegfried Scherer. Listeria weihenstephanensis sp. nov., isolated from the water plant Lemna trisulca taken from a freshwater pond. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2013), 63, 641–647.

[2] Weller, D., Andrus, A., Wiedmann, M. and den Bakker, H.C., 2015. Listeria booriae sp. nov. and Listeria newyorkensis sp. nov., from food processing environments in the USA. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 65(1), pp.286-292.

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