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Subtyping of a large collection of historical Listeria monocytogenes strains from Ontario, Canada, by an improved multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA).
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Oct 2013
Saleh-Lakha S, Allen V G, Li J, Pagotto F, Odumeru J, Taboada E, Lombos M, Tabing K C, Blais B, Ogunremi D, Downing G, Lee S, Gao A, Nadon C, Chen S
Abstract excerpt
Listeria monocytogenes is responsible for severe and often fatal food-borne infections in humans. A collection of 2,421 L. monocytogenes isolates originating from Ontario's food chain between 1993 and 2010, along with Ontario clinical isolates collected from 2004 to 2010, was characterized using an improved multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA). The MLVA method was established based on eight...
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