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Analysis of clinical and food-borne isolates of Listeria monocytogenes in the United States by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and application of the method to epidemiologic investigations.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jul 1990
Bibb W F, Gellin B G, Weaver R, Schwartz B, Plikaytis B D, Reeves M W, Pinner R W, Broome C V
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the microbiology and epidemiology of the 1,700 sporadic cases of listeriosis that occur annually in the United States, we developed a multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MEE) typing system for Listeria monocytogenes. We studied 390 isolates by MEE. Eighty-two electrophoretic types (...
Topics
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Disease Outbreaks
- Electrophoresis
- Enzymes
- Epidemiologic Methods
- Food Microbiology
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Listeriosis
- Serotyping
- United States