''Listeria seeligeri'' is a

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, facultatively anaerobic, motile, non

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-forming, bacillus-shaped species of bacteria. It is not pathogenic. 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. 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 Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
seeligeri Bacteria described in 1983 {{Bacilli-stub