Identification and characterization of foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes strain Pyde1 and Pyde2 using 16S rRNA gene sequencing

Aim

Listeria monocytogenes acts as a pathogen for humans and animals, mainly causing, neonatal sepsis, abortions in pregnant females and severe infections such as septicemia and meningoencephalitis in susceptible hosts. Current study was aimed to identify novel strains of L. monocytogenes from retail chicken, beef meat and seafood samples.

Methods

In order to identify the strain, extraction and amplification of genomic DNA, 16S rRNA sequence analysis was carried out. Phylogenetic trees were constructed using dnapars and dnaml available in Phylip. The secondary structures of 16S rRNA gene sequence were predicted using UNAFOLD, a Linux based software.

Results

The results obtained were found to be a novel foodborne pathogens, which was further named L. monocytogenes strain Pyde1 and L. monocytogenes strain Pyde2, after characterization the sequence of isolate was deposited in GenBank with accession numbers ‘KC852899’ and ‘KC852900’ respectively. The Gibb's free energy of the secondary structures of L. monocytogenes strain Pyde1 and Pyde2 were −275.60 and −282.20 kcal/mol seems to be more stable in the present investigation.

Conclusion

The described results of phylogenetic distinctiveness and phenotypic disparities indicate that strain 2b represents a novel strain of foodborne pathogens within L. monocytogenes species, for which the name L. monocytogenes strain Pyde1 and L. monocytogenes strain Pyde2 is proposed.