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Multilocus sequence typing of outbreak-associated Listeria monocytogenes isolates to identify epidemic clones.
Foodborne pathogens and disease - 1 Mar 2010
den Bakker Henk C, Fortes Esther D, Wiedmann Martin
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OBJECTIVE: Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen found in a wide variety of environments. Subtype characterization of L. monocytogenes isolates from listeriosis outbreaks that have occurred over the last three decades has suggested that a number of outbreaks were caused by a small number of L. monocytogenes epidemic clones (ECs). In this study we compared the prevalence, ecology, and phylogenetic...
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