World wide distribution of major clones of listeria monocytogenes

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1110-1112

  Chenal Francisque, Viviane ^a,b   Lopez, Jodie ^a   Cantinelli, Thomas ^a   Caro, Valerie ^a   Tran, Coralie ^a   Leclercq, Alexandre ^a,b   Lecuit, Marc ^b,c,d   Brisse, Sylvain ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LETTER; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; STANDARDIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LISTERIOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEROTYPING;

ANIMALS; CLONE CELLS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEROTYPING;

EID: 79957652225     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1706.101778     Document Type: Letter

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