High level of heterogeneity among listeria monocytogenes isolates from clinical and food origin specimens in Greece

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 848-852

  Houhoula, Dimitra P ^a   Peirasmaki, Dimitra ^a   Konteles, Spyros J ^a   Kizis, Dimosthenis ^a   Koussissis, Stamatis ^a   Bratacos, Michael ^a   Poggas, Nikolaos ^a   Charvalos, Ekaterina ^a   Tsakris, Athanassios ^b   Papaparaskevas, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GREECE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEROTYPE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENETIC VARIATION; GREECE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MEAT; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEROTYPING; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 84867002284     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: 15567125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2012.1187     Document Type: Article

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