Recurrent and sporadic Listeria monocytogenes contamination in alheiras represents considerable diversity, including virulence-attenuated isolates

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3887-3895

  Felicio M T S ^a,b,c   Hogg, T ^a   Gibbs, P ^a   Teixeira, P ^a   Wiedmann, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA PORTUGUESA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE CASTELO BRANCO   (Portugal)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CONTAMINATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; PATHOGENS;

ALHEIRAS; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; SMOKED MEAT SAUSAGES;

MEATS;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; TETRACYCLINE;

ASSAY; BACTERIUM; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD QUALITY; PATHOGENICITY; PERSISTENCE; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; COLONY FORMING UNIT; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INLA GENE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEAT; MEAT INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPING; STOP CODON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CACO-2 CELLS; CODON, TERMINATOR; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEAT PRODUCTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PORTUGAL; RIBOTYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 34347259288     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02912-06     Document Type: Article

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