A targeted multilocus genotyping assay for lineage, serogroup, and epidemic clone typing of listeria monocytogenes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 6680-6684

  Ward, Todd J ^a   Usgaard, Thomas ^a   Evans, Peter ^b  

^a Bacterial Foodborne Pathogens and Mycology Research Unit   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOTYPING ASSAYS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; RISK BASED INSPECTION; STRAIN CHARACTERIZATION;

CLONING; LISTERIA;

DISEASES;

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

BACTERIUM; CLONE; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EVALUATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 78049256317     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01008-10     Document Type: Article

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