Epidemic clones" of listeria monocytogenes are widespread and ancient clonal groups

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3770-3779

  Cantinelli, Thomas ^a   Chenal Francisque, Viviane ^a   Diancourt, Laure ^a   Frezal, Lise ^b   Leclercq, Alexandre ^a   Wirth, Thierry ^c,d   Lecuit, Marc ^a,e   Brisse, Sylvain ^a,f  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^f CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTI VIRULENCE LOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STOP CODON;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMICS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84886503913     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01874-13     Document Type: Article

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