A Listeria monocytogenes ST2 clone lacking chitinase ChiB from an outbreak of non-invasive gastroenteritis

An outbreak with a remarkable Listeria monocytogenes clone causing 163 cases of non-invasive listeriosis occurred in Germany in 2015. Core genome multi locus sequence typing grouped non-invasive outbreak isolates and isolates obtained from related food samples into a single cluster, but clearly sepa...

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Published in:	Emerging Microbes and Infections
Main Authors:	Sven Halbedel, Rita Prager, Sangeeta Banerji, Sylvia Kleta, Eva Trost, Gopala Nishanth, Georg Alles, Christina Hölzel, Friederike Schlesiger, Ariane Pietzka, Dirk Schlüter, Antje Flieger
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Subjects:	Molecular surveillance core genome MLST chitin listeriosis invasion
Online Access:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22221751.2018.1558960