As for many opportunistic pathogens, the virulence potential of Listeria monocytogenes is
highly heterogeneous between isolates and correlated, to some extent, with phylogeny and …

Listeriosis is caused by the ingestion of pathogenic Listeria monocytogenes in contaminated
food. In the October 26 Science, Glaser et al. report a comparative analysis of Listeria …

Listeria monocytogenes is a human and animal pathogen capable of causing disease
outcomes from gastroenteritis to death. In addition, it is resistant to several common food …

Consumption of contaminated food has raised the number of outbreaks of fatal foodborne
illness in last four decades. In most of the cases, pathogenic bacterial contamination has …

Listeria spp. are rod shaped, Gram-positive, intracellular, facultative-anaerobic,
nonsporulating rods and are motile at 10–25 C. 1–3 Listeria have been isolated from varied …

Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is becoming the standard method for subtyping Listeria
monocytogenes. Interpretation of WGS data for isolates from foods and associated …

In this thesis, a general approach to complete de novo sequencing, annotation and
bioinformatic analyses of bacterial genomes and pan-genomes was devised and …

The publication of the complete genome sequences of four clinical Listeria monocytogenes
isolates and one of its apathogenic relative, Listeria innocua, in 2001 and 2003 has paved …

Listeria monocytogenes causes listeriosis, a disease characterized by a high mortality rate
(up to 30%). Since the pathogen is highly tolerant to changing conditions (high and low …

Listeria monocytogenes is a food-associated bacterium that is responsible for food-related
illnesses worldwide. This is the initial public release of 306 L. monocytogenes genome …