Listeria monocytogenes: Cultivation and laboratory maintenance

Current Protocols in Microbiology

Volumn , Issue SUPPL.31, 2013, Pages

  Jones, Grant S ^a   D'Orazio, Sarah E F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gram positive; Intracellular pathogen; Listeria monocytogenes; Listeriosis

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL; REAGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CULTURE OPTIMIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREEZING; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INCUBATION TIME; INOCULATION; LIQUID CULTURE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STORAGE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84891590926     PISSN: 19348525     EISSN: 19348533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/9780471729259.mc09b02s31     Document Type: Article

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