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Long-term persistence of diverse clones shapes the transmission landscape of invasive Listeria monocytogenes.
Genome medicine - 4 Sept 2024
Ikhimiukor Odion O, Mingle Lisa, Wirth Samantha E, Mendez-Vallellanes Damaris V, Hoyt Hannah, Musser Kimberlee A, Wolfgang William J, Andam Cheryl P
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BACKGROUND: The foodborne bacterium Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) causes a range of diseases, from mild gastroenteritis to invasive infections that have high fatality rate in vulnerable individuals. Understanding the population genomic structure of invasive Lm is critical to informing public health interventions and infection control policies that will be most effective especially in local and regional communities....
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