Listeria monocytogenes in stone fruits linked to a multistate outbreak: Enumeration of cells and whole-genome sequencing

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 7030-7040

  Chen, Yi ^a   Burall, Laurel S ^a   Luo, Yan ^a   Timme, Ruth ^a   Melka, David ^a   Muruvanda, Tim ^a   Payne, Justin ^a   Wang, Charles ^a,c   Kastanis, George ^a   Maounounen Laasri, Anna ^a   De Jesus, Antonio J ^a   Curry, Phillip E ^a   Stones, Robert ^b   K'Aluoch, Okumu ^a   Liu, Eileen ^a   Salter, Monique ^a   Hammack, Thomas S ^a   Evans, Peter S ^a,c   Parish, Mickey ^a   Allard, Marc W ^a   Datta, Atin ^a   Strain, Errol A ^a   Brown, Eric W ^a   more..

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; LISTERIA;

CLINICAL ISOLATES; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LOWER LIMIT OF DETECTIONS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION; SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS; SINGLETON SEQUENCES; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

FRUITS;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; DISEASE INCIDENCE; FRUIT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; POLYMORPHISM; YIELD RESPONSE;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRUIT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRUIT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84997235053     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01486-16     Document Type: Article

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