Department of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.
Department of Microbial, Cellular and Molecular Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences New Graduate Building, Addis Ababa University, P.O. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
BMC Genom Data. 2024 Jan 31;25(1):12. doi: 10.1186/s12863-024-01195-0.
Listeriosis caused by Listeria monocytogenes often poses a significant threat to vulnerable populations. Dairy products have been implicated in outbreaks of listeriosis worldwide. In Ethiopia, studies have identified Listeria spp. and L. monocytogenes in various dairy products, but the genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships of these bacteria remain largely unknown in the low- and middle-income countries. Therefore, we conducted whole-genome sequencing on 15 L. monocytogenes and 55 L. innocua isolates obtained from different levels of the dairy supply chains across three regions in Ethiopia. Genomes were assembled and used for MLST genotyping and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis to infer phylogenetic relationships. We identified a total of 3 L. monocytogenes (i.e., 2, 145, and 18) and 12 L. innocua (i.e., 1489, 1619, 603, 537, 1010, 3186, 492, 3007, 1087, 474, 1008, and 637) MLST sequence types among the studied isolates. Some of these sequence types showed region-specific occurrence, while others were broadly distributed across regions. Through high-quality SNP analysis, we found that among 13 L. monocytogenes identified as ST 2, 11 of them were highly similar with low genetic variation, differing by only 1 to 10 SNPs, suggesting potential selection in the dairy food supply chain. The L. innocua isolates also exhibited low intra-ST genetic variation with only 0-10 SNP differences, except for the ST 1619, which displayed a greater diversity.
单增李斯特菌引起的李斯特菌病常对弱势群体构成重大威胁。乳制品已被世界范围内的李斯特菌病爆发所牵连。在埃塞俄比亚,研究已经在各种乳制品中发现了李斯特菌属和单增李斯特菌,但这些细菌的遗传多样性和系统发育关系在中低收入国家仍知之甚少。因此,我们对从埃塞俄比亚三个地区的乳制品供应链不同层次获得的 15 株单增李斯特菌和 55 株无害李斯特菌进行了全基因组测序。对基因组进行组装并用于 MLST 基因分型和单核苷酸多态性(SNP)分析,以推断系统发育关系。我们总共鉴定了 3 株单增李斯特菌(即 2、145 和 18)和 12 株无害李斯特菌(即 1489、1619、603、537、1010、3186、492、3007、1087、474、1008 和 637)。这些分离株中的一些序列类型表现出特定区域的发生,而其他序列类型则在区域间广泛分布。通过高质量的 SNP 分析,我们发现,在所研究的 13 株鉴定为 ST2 的单增李斯特菌中,有 11 株具有高度相似性,遗传变异很小,仅相差 1 到 10 个 SNP,表明在乳制品供应链中存在潜在的选择。无害李斯特菌分离株也表现出低的种内遗传变异,只有 0-10 个 SNP 差异,除了 ST1619 ,其显示出更大的多样性。