Biodiversity of the species Listeria monocytogenes and the genus Listeria

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1147-1155

  Buchrieser, Carmen ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Comparative genomics; Listeria innocua; Listeria monocytogenes; Listeria welshimeri

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LISTERIA; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIA WELSHIMERI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

LISTERIA; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIA WELSHIMERI;

EID: 34548509001     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2007.05.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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