Subtyping of a large collection of historical Listeria monocytogenes strains from Ontario, Canada, by an improved multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 6472-6480

  Saleh Lakha, S ^a   Allen, V G ^b   Li, J ^a   Pagotto, F ^c   Odumeru, J ^d   Taboada, E ^e   Lombos, M ^b   Tabing, K C ^f   Blais, B ^g   Ogunremi, D ^g   Downing, G ^h   Lee, S ^a   Gao, A ^a   Nadon, C ^f   Chen, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^d ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^g CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

^h FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION RATE; CLINICAL ISOLATES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ISOLATES; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PATHOGENIC STRAINS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STATISTICAL DATA ANALYSIS;

DNA SEQUENCES; ELECTROPHORESIS; LISTERIA;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

BACTERIUM; DATABASE; DIVERSITY INDEX; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; MONITORING; PATHOGEN; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; FOOD CONTROL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR TYPING; ONTARIO;

EID: 84885061909     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00759-13     Document Type: Article

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