Listeria monocytogenes isolates from invasive infections: Variation of sero- and genotypes during an 11-year period in Finland

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1694-1700

  Lukinmaa, Susanna ^a   Miettinen, Maria ^b   Nakari, Ulla Maija ^a   Korkeala, Hannu ^b   Siitonen, Anja ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FINLAND; FISH; GENDER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SEROTYPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROTYPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

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

EID: 12444344823     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.4.1694-1700.2003     Document Type: Article

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