Actin-based motility and cell-to-cell spread of Listeria monocytogenes

Listeria Monocytogenes: Pathogenesis and Host Response

Volumn 9780387493763, Issue , 2007, Pages 197-223

  Welch, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-49376-3_10     Document Type: Chapter

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