Listeria seeligeri is a Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, motile, nonspore-forming, bacillus-shaped species of bacteria. L. seeligeri is not considered pathogenic in humans. The species was first isolated from plants, soil, and animal feces in Europe, was first proposed in 1983, and is named after Heinz P. R. Seeliger.Jocelyne Rocourt and Patrick A. D. Grimont. Listeria welshimeri sp. nov. and Listeria seeligeri sp. nov. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, Oct. 1983, p. 866-869, Vol. 33. No. 4. Seeliger first proposed the species L. ivanovii and L. innocua, and published extensively on members of the genus Listeria.
L. seeligeri is one of only three species of Listeria that is hemolytic, along with L. ivanovii and L. monocytogenes.Daniel Weller, Alexis Andrus, Martin Wiedmann and Henk C. den Bakker. Listeria booriae sp. nov. and Listeria newyorkensis sp. nov., from food processing environments in the USA. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2015), 65, 286–292.
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External links Type strain of Listeria seeligeri at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase