Listeria monocytogenes associated with New Zealand seafood production and clinical cases: Unique sequence types, truncated InlA, and attenuated invasiveness

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1489-1497

  Cruz, Cristina D ^a   Pitman, Andrew R ^a   Harrow, Sally A ^a   Fletcher, Graham C ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL STRAIN; EPITHELIAL CACO-2 CELLS; FOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS; PROCESSING ENVIRONMENTS; PROCESSING PLANTS; RISK TO HUMAN HEALTH;

CELL CULTURE; LISTERIA; MOLLUSCS; PATHOGENS;

MEATS;

BACTERIUM; BIVALVE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISK; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; PHENOTYPE; SEAFOOD;

NEW ZEALAND;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INTERNALIN PROTEIN, BACTERIA; STOP CODON; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

CACO 2 CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW ZEALAND; PATHOGENICITY; SEA FOOD; STOP CODON; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CACO-2 CELLS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CODON, NONSENSE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW ZEALAND; SEAFOOD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84893353193     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03305-13     Document Type: Article

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