A comparison of Listeria monocytogenes serovar 4b isolates of clinical and food origin in Austria by automated ribotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 138-141

  Grif, Katharina ^a   Heller, Ingrid ^a   Wagner, Martin ^b   Dierich, Manfred ^a   Würzner, Reinhard ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; EVALUATION; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD BORNE INFECTION; INFECTION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PHYLOGENY; RIBOTYPING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 33645706581     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2006.3.138     Document Type: Article

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