Adaptive acid tolerance response in Listeria monocytogenes: Isolation of an acid-tolerant mutant which demonstrates increased virulence

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1693-1698

  O'Driscoll, Brid ^a   Gahan, Cormac G M ^a   Hill, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PH; PHAGOSOME; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; VIOLA (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 0029931088     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.5.1693-1698.1996     Document Type: Article

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