… monocytogenes hemolytic phenotype depends on two essential virulence determinants, the
central virulence … Indeed, all nonhemolytic strains identified in this study carried mutations in …

… be critical for intracellularly growing Listeria bacteria (4). Furthermore, propanediol utilization
via the pdu genes has been reported to play a role in the virulence of S. enterica serovar …

… detection of Listeria monocytogenes, which is an important food-borne kind of pathogenic
bacteria … Hly is one of the prfA virulence gene cluster, which is the major virulence factors of L. …

… Listeria only two are pathogenic, Listeria monocytogenes … detecting virulence factors in the
target pathogenic Listeria spp. … rapid detection and enumeration of pathogenic Listeria spp. …

… ofthe prfA (transcriptional activator of the virulence factor) gene for L. … monocytogenes is
likely to be eliminated. the FDA and USDA methods for the detection of Listeria monocytogenes. …

… clones and other outbreak isolates into an SNP genotyping strategy may allow the rapid
identification of epidemic clones of L. monocytogenes. The set of 16 SNPs that were capable of …

… welshimeri were selected to confirm the differentiation between pathogenic and non-pathogenic
Listeria species, as they lack a 10 kb virulence locus, a cluster of genes, including hlyA. …

… , this LAMP assay was demonstrated to be a useful and powerful tool for rapid detection of
L. monocytogenes strains. As our knowledge can reach, this is the first time to report a rapid L. …

… To understand the prevalence and potential risk of Listeria monocytogenes in RTE vegetables,
we investigated the contamination level and characteristics of L. monocytogenes isolated …

… , allowing a rapid identification at the species level. Moreover, for L. monocytogenes it was
… The method can be used for rapid identification of traditionally isolated strains or it can be …