Pathogen: Listeria monocytogenes Scott A, a clinical isolate from a foodborne listeriosis outbreak
Listeria monocytogenes
This clinical strain is serovar 4b and was isolated during the Massachusetts listeriosis outbreak in 1983. While the strain is already available as a RefSeq strain (NZ_CM001159) from NCBI, assembled using a mixed strategy of de novo and reference-based assembly, its genome was re-sequenced and assembled purely with a de novo hybrid strategy, by combining PacBio and Illumina MiSeq reads, to obtain complete genome sequence for subsequent protegenomic studies.