A new perspective on Listeria monocytogenes evolution.

Listeria monocytogenes is a model organism for cellular microbiology and host-pathogen interaction studies and an important food-borne pathogen widespread in the environment, thus representing an attractive model to study the evolution of virulence. The phylogenetic structure of L. monocytogenes was...

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Main Authors: Marie Ragon, Thierry Wirth, Florian Hollandt, Rachel Lavenir, Marc Lecuit, Alban Le Monnier, Sylvain Brisse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-09-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18773117/?tool=EBI