Multilocus sequence typing of outbreak-associated listeria monocytogenes isolates to identify epidemic clones

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 257-265

  Den Bakker, Henk C ^a   Fortes, Esther D ^a   Wiedmann, Martin ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GENE LOCUS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SEROPREVALENCE;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 77649334502     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2009.0342     Document Type: Article

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