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Revival of Seeliger's historical 'Special Listeria Culture Collection'.

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Haase, JK; Murphy, RA; Choudhury, KR; Achtman, M
Published in: Environ Microbiol
December 2011

The recent evolution of bacterial species can be elucidated with the aid of large historical strain collections. Unfortunately, information for some of these strain collections is not publicly available, or only in a format which is not readily digitized. The form of storage of traditional collection often requires considerable space and microbiological access to the individual strains can be time consuming. One such historical strain collection was assembled by Professor H.P. Seeliger, the so-called 'Special Listeria Culture Collection' (SLCC). The SLCC contains over 6000 Listeria strains which had been isolated between 1921 and 1987. The information on the properties of the strains was hand written or typed, primarily in German, and the stabs and lyophils used for storage were not ordered. Here we present a description of this strain collection after resuscitation and digitalization. Data were transcribed into a relational database and the revived bacterial strains were stored in a robotically friendly format, where the location of each tube is stored in a database. We resuscitated 4404 Listeria strains from the SLCC, and summarize their properties as well as making the detailed strain information publicly available. This digital information and the revival of the SLCC will facilitate historical analyses of the phylogeography of Listeria.

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Environ Microbiol

DOI

EISSN

1462-2920

Publication Date

December 2011

Volume

13

Issue

12

Start / End Page

3163 / 3171

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Specimen Handling
  • Microbiology
  • Listeria
  • Databases, Factual
  • Bacteriological Techniques
  • 3107 Microbiology
  • 3103 Ecology
  • 0605 Microbiology
  • 0603 Evolutionary Biology
 

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Haase, J. K., Murphy, R. A., Choudhury, K. R., & Achtman, M. (2011). Revival of Seeliger's historical 'Special Listeria Culture Collection'. Environ Microbiol, 13(12), 3163–3171. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02610.x
Haase, Jana K., Ronan A. Murphy, Kingshuk Roy Choudhury, and Mark Achtman. “Revival of Seeliger's historical 'Special Listeria Culture Collection'.Environ Microbiol 13, no. 12 (December 2011): 3163–71. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02610.x.
Haase JK, Murphy RA, Choudhury KR, Achtman M. Revival of Seeliger's historical 'Special Listeria Culture Collection'. Environ Microbiol. 2011 Dec;13(12):3163–71.
Haase, Jana K., et al. “Revival of Seeliger's historical 'Special Listeria Culture Collection'.Environ Microbiol, vol. 13, no. 12, Dec. 2011, pp. 3163–71. Pubmed, doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02610.x.
Haase JK, Murphy RA, Choudhury KR, Achtman M. Revival of Seeliger's historical 'Special Listeria Culture Collection'. Environ Microbiol. 2011 Dec;13(12):3163–3171.
Journal cover image

Published In

Environ Microbiol

DOI

EISSN

1462-2920

Publication Date

December 2011

Volume

13

Issue

12

Start / End Page

3163 / 3171

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Specimen Handling
  • Microbiology
  • Listeria
  • Databases, Factual
  • Bacteriological Techniques
  • 3107 Microbiology
  • 3103 Ecology
  • 0605 Microbiology
  • 0603 Evolutionary Biology