Environmental reservoir and transmission into the mammalian host

Listeria Monocytogenes: Pathogenesis and Host Response

Volumn 9780387493763, Issue , 2007, Pages 111-137

  Oliver, Haley F ^a   Wiedmann, Martin ^a   Boor, Kathryn J ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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