Diversity of Listeria species in urban and natural environments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4420-4433

  Sauders, Brian D ^a,b   Overdevest, Jon ^a   Fortes, Esther ^a   Windham, Katy ^a   Schukken, Ynte ^a   Lembo, Arthur ^a,c   Wiedmann, Martin ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Food Laboratory Division   (United States)

^c SALISBURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELIC DIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL PREFERENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; LISTERIA SPECIES; MONOCYTOGENES; NATURAL AREAS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; NEAREST-NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; SPECIFIC AREAS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

DISEASES; URBAN PLANNING;

LISTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SIGB PROTEIN, BACTERIA; SIGMA FACTOR;

ALLELE; BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBAN AREA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; LISTERIA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGMA FACTOR;

LISTERIA; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIA SEELIGERI; LISTERIA WELSHIMERI;

EID: 84864076595     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00282-12     Document Type: Article

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