Listeria monocytogenes mutants with altered growth phenotypes at refrigeration temperature and high salt concentrations

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1265-1272

  Burall, Laurel S ^a   Laksanalamai, Pongpan ^a   Datta, Atin R ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATED MECHANISM; BRAIN HEART INFUSIONS; COMBINED STRESS; DELETION MUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOOD ISOLATES; GROWTH REDUCTION; HIGH SALT CONCENTRATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MONOCYTOGENES; QUANTITATIVE PCR; REFRIGERATION TEMPERATURES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASES; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; WILD-TYPE STRAIN;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFRIGERATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

GENE EXPRESSION;

INORGANIC SALT;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALINITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEESE; CHEMISTRY; COLD; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIC; FOOD POISONING; FREEZING; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON;

CHEESE; COLD TEMPERATURE; CULTURE MEDIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFRIGERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALTS;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 84857090178     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06576-11     Document Type: Article

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