Analysis of additional virulence genes and virulence gene regions in Listeria monocytogenes confirms the epidemiologic relevance of multi-virulence-locus sequence typing

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2559-2566

  Lomonaco, Sara ^a,b   Chen, Yi ^a   Knabel, Stephen J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 57449107382     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-71.12.2559     Document Type: Article

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