Tolerance of Listeria monocytogenes to quaternary ammonium sanitizers is mediated by a novel efflux pump encoded by emrE

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 939-953

  Kovacevic, Jovana ^a   Ziegler, Jennifer ^b   Walecka Zacharska, Ewa ^a,c   Reimer, Aleisha ^d   Kitts, David D ^a   Gilmour, Matthew W ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c WROC AW UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CATIONIC SURFACTANTS; CELL ADHESION; DISEASES; FOOD PROCESSING; GENE EXPRESSION; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRAIN;

BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; FOOD INDUSTRIES; GENOMIC ISLANDS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MONOCYTOGENES; PROCESSING ENVIRONMENTS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM; STRESS RESPONSE;

LISTERIA;

AMMONIUM; BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOOD PROCESSING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PUMP; TOLERANCE;

CANADA;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

ACRIFLAVINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BENZALKONIUM; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TRICLOSAN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CACO-2 CELL LINE; CANADA; DRUG EFFECTS; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; STANDARDS;

ACRIFLAVINE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZALKONIUM COMPOUNDS; CACO-2 CELLS; CANADA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; GENES, MDR; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; TRICLOSAN;

EID: 84957673081     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03741-15     Document Type: Article

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