Stress survival islet 1 (SSI-1) survey in Listeria monocytogenes reveals an insert common to Listeria innocua in sequence type 121 L. monocytogenes strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2169-2173

  Hein, Ingeborg ^a   Klinger, Sonja ^a   Dooms, Maxime ^a   Flekna, Gabriele ^a   Stessl, Beatrix ^a   Leclercq, Alexandre ^b   Hill, Colin ^c   Allerberger, Franz ^d   Wagner, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MONOCYTOGENES; SEROTYPES;

DISEASES; GENES;

LISTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; HOMOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 79953214954     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02159-10     Document Type: Article

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