Genetic Markers Unique to Listeria monocytogenes Serotype 4b Differentiate Epidemic Clone II (Hot Dog Outbreak Strains) from Other Lineages

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2383-2390

  Evans, Matthew R ^a   Swaminathan, Bala ^b   Graves, Lewis M ^b   Altermann, Eric ^a   Klaenhammer, Todd R ^a   Fink, Ryan C ^a   Kernodle, Sheri ^a   Kathariou, Sophia ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOMARKERS; CLONING; DNA; FOOD PRODUCTS;

EPIDEMIC CLONE; SOUTHERN BLOT;

MICROBIOLOGY;

DNA FRAGMENT;

GENETIC MARKER;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EVOLUTION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETIC MARKER; INLA GENE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES SEROTYPE 4B; LISTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEAT PRODUCTS; NORTH AMERICA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIS FAMILIARIS; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 11144295266     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.4.2383-2390.2004     Document Type: Article

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