Listeria monocytogenes : epidemiology, human disease, and mechanisms of brain invasion

DA Drevets, MS Bronze - FEMS Immunology & Medical …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Listeria monocytogenes is a facultative intracellular bacterium that has predilection for
causing central nervous systemic infections in humans and domesticated animals. This …

Invasion of the central nervous system by intracellular bacteria

DA Drevets, PJM Leenen… - Clinical microbiology …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
Infection of the central nervous system (CNS) is a severe and frequently fatal event during
the course of many diseases caused by microbes with predominantly intracellular life cycles …

[BOOK][B] Listeria, listeriosis, and food safety

ET Ryser, EH Marth - 2007 - books.google.com
Completely revised, this third edition of a bestseller incorporates findings to present readers
with a complete overview of foodborne listeriosis, including information on listeriosis in …

Virulent Bacteriophage for Efficient Biocontrol of Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-To-Eat Foods

S Guenther, D Huwyler, S Richard… - Applied and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Food-borne Listeria monocytogenes is a serious threat to human health, and new strategies
to combat this opportunistic pathogen in foods are needed. Bacteriophages are natural …

Biocontrol and rapid detection of food-borne pathogens using bacteriophages and endolysins

J Bai, YT Kim, S Ryu, JH Lee - Frontiers in microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Bacteriophages have been suggested as natural food preservatives as well as rapid
detection materials for food-borne pathogens in various foods. Since Listeria …

Molecular epidemiology and genetic diversity of Listeria monocytogenes isolates from a wide variety of ready-to-eat foods and their relationship to clinical strains from …

D Montero, M Bodero, G Riveros, L Lapierre… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogen transmitted through food that can cause severe
infections in high-risk groups such as pregnant women, elderly, young children and …

Identification of Listeria Species by Microarray-Based Assay

D Volokhov, A Rasooly, K Chumakov… - Journal of Clinical …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
We have developed a rapid microarray-based assay for the reliable detection and
discrimination of six species of the Listeria genus: L. monocytogenes, L. ivanovii, L. innocua …

Pregnancy-associated listeriosis

KA Jackson, M Iwamoto, D Swerdlow - Epidemiology & Infection, 2010 - cambridge.org
Infection by Listeria monocytogenes in pregnant women may result in fetal loss or invasive
disease in the newborn. We examined listeriosis cases reported through the US Listeria …

Listeria monocytogenes sequence type 1 is predominant in ruminant rhombencephalitis

M Dreyer, L Aguilar-Bultet, S Rupp, C Guldimann… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Listeria (L.) monocytogenes is an opportunistic pathogen causing life-threatening infections
in diverse mammalian species including humans and ruminants. As little is known on the …

Listeriosis: a primer

R Bortolussi - Cmaj, 2008 - Can Med Assoc
Serious outbreaks of food-borne ill-ness, whether regional or national, dramatically raise
community anxiety about personal health and increase the workloads of front-line …