Significant shift in median guinea pig infectious dose shown by an outbreak-associated Listeria monocytogenes epidemic clone strain and a strain carrying a premature stop codon mutation in inlA

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2479-2487

  Van Stelten, A ^a   Simpson, J M ^a   Chen, Y ^b,c   Scott, V N ^b,c   Whiting, R C ^d   Ross, W H ^e   Nightingale, K K ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Grocery Manufacturers Association   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^e HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RECEPTORS; CRITICAL DATA; DOSE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; DOSE-RESPONSE CURVES; E-CADHERINS; GOODNESS OF FIT; GUINEA PIGS; INITIAL STAGES; ISOFORMS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; LYMPH NODE; MONOCYTOGENES; READY-TO-EAT FOODS; STRAIN PARAMETERS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

CLONING; DISEASES; LISTERIA; RISK ASSESSMENT;

STRAIN;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INTERNALIN PROTEIN, BACTERIA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIUM; EPIDEMIC; INFECTIVITY; MUTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RODENT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; STOP CODON; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; UNITED STATES; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CODON, NONSENSE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; UNITED STATES; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

CAVIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 79953281520     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02626-10     Document Type: Article

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