ActA promotes Listeria monocytogenes aggregation, intestinal colonization and carriage.

Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is a ubiquitous bacterium able to survive and thrive within the environment and readily colonizes a wide range of substrates, often as a biofilm. It is also a facultative intracellular pathogen, which actively invades diverse hosts and induces listeriosis. So far, these t...

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Main Authors: Laetitia Travier, Stéphanie Guadagnini, Edith Gouin, Alexandre Dufour, Viviane Chenal-Francisque, Pascale Cossart, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin, Jean-Marc Ghigo, Olivier Disson, Marc Lecuit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23382675/?tool=EBI