Pathogenicity islands and virulence evolution in Listeria

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 571-584

  Vázquez Boland, José A ^a   Domínguez Bernal, Gustavo ^a   González Zorn, Bruno ^a   Kreft, Jürgen ^b   Goebel, Werner ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

LIPI 1; LIPI 2; Listeria; Listeria innocua; Listeria ivanovii; Listeria monocytogenes; LRR proteins; Microbial pathogenesis; Pathogenicity islands; Virulence evolution

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; HYPOTHESIS; LIFE CYCLE; LISTERIA; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA IVANOVII; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034971856     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(01)01413-7     Document Type: Review

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