More than one variant of Listeria monocytogenes isolated from each of two human cases of invasive listeriosis

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 854-856

  Tham, W ^a   Lopez Valladares, G ^a   Helmersson, S ^b   Osterlund A ^c   Danielsson Tham, M L ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c Department of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 34547430681     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268806007503     Document Type: Article

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