Characterization of virulent and avirulent Listeria monocytogenes strains by PCR amplification of putative transcriptional regulator and internalin genes

D Liu, AJ Ainsworth, FW Austin… - Journal of Medical …, 2003 - microbiologyresearch.org
Listeria monocytogenes is an opportunistic bacterial pathogen that is an important cause of
human food-borne illness worldwide. However, L. monocytogenes strains demonstrate …

The Listeria monocytogenes Virulence Factor InlJ Is Specifically Expressed In Vivo and Behaves as an Adhesin

C Sabet, A Toledo-Arana, N Personnic… - Infection and …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
The food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is adapted to a diversity of environments,
such as soil, food, body fluids, and the cytosol of eukaryotic cells. The transition between …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape of Stress Response and Virulence Genes Among Listeria monocytogenes Strains

BZ Lakicevic, HMW Den Besten… - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The pathogenic microorganism Listeria monocytogenes is ubiquitous and responsible for
listeriosis, a disease with a high mortality rate in susceptible people. It can persist in different …

New Aspects Regarding Evolution and Virulence of Listeria monocytogenes Revealed by Comparative Genomics and DNA Arrays

M Doumith, C Cazalet, N Simoes, L Frangeul… - Infection and …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
Listeria monocytogenes is a food-borne bacterial pathogen that causes a wide spectrum of
diseases, such as meningitis, septicemia, abortion, and gastroenteritis, in humans and …

[HTML][HTML] Listeria monocytogenes – How This Pathogen Survives in Food-Production Environments?

J Osek, B Lachtara, K Wieczorek - Frontiers in microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of human listeriosis,
a severe disease, especially dangerous for the elderly, pregnant women, and newborns …

Listeria monocytogenes, a model in infection biology

M Lecuit - Cellular microbiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Listeria monocytogenes causes listeriosis, a systemic infection which manifests as
bacteremia, often complicated by meningoencephalitis in immunocompromised individuals …

Genomic and phenotypic diversity of Listeria monocytogenes clonal complexes associated with human listeriosis

TM Bergholz, MK Shah, LS Burall… - Applied Microbiology …, 2018 - Springer
Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogen of significant concern in many ready to eat foods due
to its ability to survive and multiply even under significant environmental stresses. Listeriosis …

Listeria monocytogenes — from saprophyte to intracellular pathogen

NE Freitag, GC Port, MD Miner - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009 - nature.com
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that lives in the soil as a saprophyte but is capable of
making the transition into a pathogen following its ingestion by susceptible humans or …

Molecular biology of surface colonization by Listeria monocytogenes: an additional facet of an opportunistic Gram‐positive foodborne pathogen

S Renier, M Hébraud, M Desvaux - Environmental …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The opportunistic and facultative intracellular pathogenic bacterium Listeria monocytogenes
causes a rare but severe foodborne disease called listeriosis, the outcome of which can be …

Listeria monocytogenes: review of pathogenesis and virulence determinants-targeted immunological assays

L Lopes-Luz, M Mendonça… - Critical Reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Listeria monocytogenes is one of the most invasive foodborne pathogens and is responsible
for numerous outbreaks worldwide. Most of the methods to detect this bacterium in food …