Sequence typing confirms that a predominant Listeria monocytogenes clone caused human listeriosis cases and outbreaks in Canada from 1988 to 2010

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1748-1751

  Knabel, Stephen J ^a   Reimer, Aleisha ^b   Verghese, Bindhu ^a,g   Lok, Mei ^a,f   Ziegler, Jennifer ^b,c   Farber, Jeffrey ^d,e   Pagotto, Franco ^d,e   Graham, Morag ^b,c   Nadon, Celine A ^b,c,d   Gilmour, Matthew W ^b,c,d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^e HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^f Strategic Diagnostics Incorporated   (United States)

^g Accugenix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANADA; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TREND STUDY;

CANADA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84859953198     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.06185-11     Document Type: Article

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