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Stress survival islet 1 contributes to serotype-specific differences in biofilm formation in Listeria monocytogenes.
Letters in applied microbiology - 1 Dec 2018
Keeney K, Trmcic A, Zhu Z, Delaquis P, Wang S
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Listeria monocytogenes has a significant impact on the food industry by forming biofilms on food-processing equipment. Tandem analysis of whole-genome sequencing data with biofilm data from 166 environmental and food-related L. monocytogenes isolates has revealed serotypic and genetic factors that strongly correlate with adherence and biofilm formation, such as lineage, plasmid harbourage, a three-codon deletion...
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