{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["75(5)"],"submitter":["Brown P"],"pubmed_abstract":["In September 2018, Hurricane Florence resulted in major flooding in North Carolina, USA. Efforts to isolate <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> and other <i>Listeria</i> spp. from Hurricane Florence floodwaters repeatedly yielded non-haemolytic <i>Listeria</i>-like isolates that could not be readily assigned to known <i>Listeria</i> taxa. Whole-genome sequence analyses against the 28 currently known <i>Listeria</i> species confirmed that the isolates constitute two new taxa within the genus <i>Listeria</i>. Taxon I, with one isolate, showed the highest similarity to <i>Listeria goaensis,</i> with an average nucleotide identity blast of 85.3±4.4% and an <i>in silico</i> DNA-DNA hybridization (<i>is</i>DDH) of 32.4% (range: 30-35%), differing from the latter by its ability to reduce nitrate, ferme"],"journal":["International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12378429"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["&lt;i&gt;Listeria tempestatis&lt;/i&gt; sp. nov. and &lt;i&gt;Listeria rocourtiae&lt;/i&gt; subsp. &lt;i&gt;hofi&lt;/i&gt; subsp. nov."],"pmcid":["PMC12378429"],"pubmed_authors":["Brown P","Niedermeyer J","Lecuit M","Tessaud-Rita N","Harris A","Kathariou S","Vales G","Emanuel RE","Moura A","Parsons C","Leclercq A"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"&lt;i&gt;Listeria tempestatis&lt;/i&gt; sp. nov. and &lt;i&gt;Listeria rocourtiae&lt;/i&gt; subsp. &lt;i&gt;hofi&lt;/i&gt; subsp. nov.","description":"In September 2018, Hurricane Florence resulted in major flooding in North Carolina, USA. Efforts to isolate <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> and other <i>Listeria</i> spp. from Hurricane Florence floodwaters repeatedly yielded non-haemolytic <i>Listeria</i>-like isolates that could not be readily assigned to known <i>Listeria</i> taxa. Whole-genome sequence analyses against the 28 currently known <i>Listeria</i> species confirmed that the isolates constitute two new taxa within the genus <i>Listeria</i>. Taxon I, with one isolate, showed the highest similarity to <i>Listeria goaensis,</i> with an average nucleotide identity blast of 85.3±4.4% and an <i>in silico</i> DNA-DNA hybridization (<i>is</i>DDH) of 32.4% (range: 30-35%), differing from the latter by its ability to reduce nitrate, ferme","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 May","modification":"2026-05-09T17:57:20.248Z","creation":"2026-04-08T01:08:00.916Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12378429","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40358009"],"doi":["10.1099/ijsem.0.006774"]}}