Compatible solutes: The key to Listeria's success as a versatile gastrointestinal pathogen?

Gut Pathogens

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Sleator, Roy D ^a,b   Hill, Colin ^b  

^a Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

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EID: 82055176201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17574749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-4749-2-20     Document Type: Review

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