Absence of serotype-specific surface antigen in laboratory variants of epidemic-associated Listeria monocytogenes strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 6313-6316

  Cheng, Ying ^a   Yue, Lili ^a,b   Elhanafi, Driss ^a   Kathariou, S ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC CLONES; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES STRAINS; SEROTYPE-SPECIFIC SURFACE ANTIGEN; SURFACE ANTIGEN;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CLONING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES;

ANTIGENS;

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY C74.22; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LABORATORY METHOD;

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLONE; EPIDEMIC; GENE MUTATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; SEROTYPE;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; GENES, BACTERIAL; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; SEROTYPING;

LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 35148876471     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00473-07     Document Type: Article

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