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A better understanding of the mechanisms responsible for bacterial virulence requires an in-depth knowledge of the genetic characteristics of these bacteria. In this context, draft whole genome sequences were completed on five\n                    <jats:italic>L. innocua<\/jats:italic>\n                    isolated from milk and dairy products in Egypt. The assembled sequences were screened for antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes, plasmid replicons and multilocus sequence types (MLST); phylogenetic analysis of the sequenced isolates was also performed. The sequencing results revealed the presence of only one antimicrobial resistance gene,\n                    <jats:italic>fos<\/jats:italic>\n                    X, in the\n                    <jats:italic>L. innocua<\/jats:italic>\n                    isolates. However, the five isolates carried 13 virulence genes involved in adhesion, invasion, surface protein anchoring, peptidoglycan degradation, intracellular survival, and heat stress; all five lacked the\n                    <jats:italic>Listeria<\/jats:italic>\n                    Pathogenicity Island 1 (LIPI-1) genes. MLST assigned these five isolates into the same sequence type (ST), ST-1085; however, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based phylogenetic analysis revealed 422\u20131,091 SNP differences between our isolates and global lineages of\n                    <jats:italic>L. innocua<\/jats:italic>\n                    . The five isolates possessed an ATP-dependent protease (\n                    <jats:italic>clp<\/jats:italic>\n                    L) gene, which mediates heat resistance, on a\n                    <jats:italic>rep<\/jats:italic>\n                    25 type plasmids. Blast analysis of\n                    <jats:italic>clp<\/jats:italic>\n                    L-carrying plasmid contigs showed approximately 99% sequence similarity to the corresponding parts of plasmids of\n                    <jats:italic>L. monocytogenes<\/jats:italic>\n                    strains 2015TE24968 and N1-011A previously isolated from Italy and the United States, respectively. Although this plasmid has been linked to\n                    <jats:italic>L. monocytogenes<\/jats:italic>\n                    that was responsible for a serious outbreak, this is the first report of\n                    <jats:italic>L. innocua<\/jats:italic>\n                    containing\n                    <jats:italic>clp<\/jats:italic>\n                    L-carrying plasmids. Various genetic mechanisms of virulence transfer among\n                    <jats:italic>Listeria<\/jats:italic>\n                    species and other genera could raise the possibility of the evolution of virulent strains of\n                    <jats:italic>L. innocua<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Such strains could challenge processing and preservation protocols and pose health risks from dairy products. 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