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A new perspective on Listeria monocytogenes evolution.
PLoS pathogens - 5 Sept 2008
Ragon Marie, Wirth Thierry, Hollandt Florian, Lavenir Rachel, Lecuit Marc, Le Monnier Alban, Brisse Sylvain
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Listeria monocytogenes is a model organism for cellular microbiology and host-pathogen interaction studies and an important food-borne pathogen widespread in the environment, thus representing an attractive model to study the evolution of virulence. The phylogenetic structure of L. monocytogenes was determined by sequencing internal portions of seven housekeeping genes (3,288 nucleotides) in 360 representative...
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