Pathogenesis

Handbook of Listeria Monocytogenes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 97-136

  Kuhn, Michael ^a   Scortti, Mariela ^b   Vázquez Boland, José A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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