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We compared conventional sequence features, numerical DNA representations generated by DNABERT2, and known quaternary ammonium compound (QAC) determinants in a public benchmark of 197 Listeria monocytogenes isolates with benzalkonium chloride MIC data. Models were evaluated across five repeated lineage-grouped train, development, and test splits. The known-QAC determinant rule showed the highest balanced accuracy (mean \u00b1 standard deviation, 0.961 \u00b1 0.057) and ROC AUC (0.961 \u00b1 0.057). A model combining k-mer, DNABERT2, and QAC scores reached balanced accuracy 0.915 \u00b1 0.023, whereas the best DNABERT2-based classifier reached 0.570 \u00b1 0.110; sparse k-mer models did not exceed the dummy baseline. Public non-Listeria studies lacked the row-level phenotype-genome linkage required for supervised modeling. An exploratory bioinformatic screen therefore identified only candidate regions for future testing, not validated tolerance predictions. 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