Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive facultative intracellular pathogen that can cause
severe invasive infections upon ingestion with contaminated food. Clinically, listerial …

Listeria monocytogenes is a saprophytic gram-positive bacterium, and an opportunistic
foodborne pathogen that can produce listeriosis in humans and animals. It has evolved an …

Emerging and re-emerging bacterial infections are a serious threat to human and animal
health. Extracellular bacteria are free-living, while facultative intracellular bacteria replicate …

The promise of tumor immunotherapy to significantly improve survival in patients who are
refractory to long-standing therapies, such as chemotherapy and radiation, is now being …

The bacterium Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is widely distributed in the environment as a
saprophyte, but may turn into a lethal intracellular pathogen upon ingestion. Invasive …

Listeriosis is a severe food borne disease with a mortality rate of up to 30% caused by
pathogenic Listeria monocytogenes via the production of several virulence factors including …

Sepsis, an amplified immune response to systemic infection that leads to life-threatening
organ dysfunction, affects> 125,000 people/day worldwide with 20% mortality. Modest …

Listeria monocytogenes is a rapidly growing, Gram‐positive, facultative intracellular
pathogen that has been used for over 5 decades as a model to study basic aspects of …

Membrane ion channels of the calcium homeostasis modulator (CALHM) family promote cell–
cell crosstalk at neuronal synapses via ATP release, where ATP acts as a neurotransmitter …

Listeria monocytogenes (Lm), a foodborne bacterium, can infect people and has a high
fatality rate in immunocompromised individuals. Listeriolysin O (LLO), the primary virulence …