Enhanced surveillance of invasive listeriosis in the Lombardy region, Italy, in the years 2006-2010 reveals major clones and an increase in serotype 1/2a

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mammina, Caterina ^a   Parisi, Antonio ^b   Guaita, Anna ^c   Aleo, Aurora ^a   Bonura, Celestino ^a   Nastasi, Antonino ^d   Pontello, Mirella ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Apulia and Basilicata   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLONAL SPECIES; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INVASIVE LISTERIOSIS; ITALY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; LISTERIA; LISTERIOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875297130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-152     Document Type: Article

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