Listeria marthii is a species of bacteria. It is a
Gram-positive
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Gram-positive bacte ...
,
motile
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Definitions
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, facultatively anaerobic, non-
spore
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-forming bacillus. It is non-pathogenic, and non-hemolytic. The species was first isolated from
Finger Lakes National Forest
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in
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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. It is named after Elmer H. Marth, a researcher of
L. monocytogenes, and was first published in 2010. ''L. marthii'' was the first new species of ''Listeria'' proposed since 1985.
''Listeria marthii'' has mainly been isolated from a specific area in the Finger Lakes National Forest. However, ''L. marthii'' strains may be mischaracterized as ''
L. innocua'' due to biochemical similarities between the two species.
References
Further reading
*Sauders, Brian D., et al. "Diversity of Listeria species in urban and natural environments." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 78.12 (2012): 4420–4433.
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External links
LPSNType strain of ''Listeria marthii'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
marthii
Bacteria described in 2010
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