Novel multiplex single nucleotide polymorphism-based method for identifying epidemic clones of listeria monocytogenes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 6290-6294

  Lomonaco, Sara ^a   Knabel, Stephen J ^b   Dalmasso, Alessandra ^a   Civera, Tiziana ^a   Bottero, Maria Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MINISEQUENCING; MONOCYTOGENES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDES; VIRULENCE GENE;

DISEASES; GENES; MULTIPLEXING; NUCLEOTIDES;

LISTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BIOASSAY; CLONE; EPIDEMIC; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; POLYMORPHISM; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOLECULAR TYPING; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 80052763579     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00429-11     Document Type: Article

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