Pathogenicity and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes: A trip from environmental to medical microbiology

JJ Quereda, A Morón-García, C Palacios-Gorba… - Virulence, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Recent past, present, and future of the food microbiome

F De Filippis, E Parente, D Ercolini - Annual Review of Food …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Sequencing technologies have deeply changed our approach to the study of food microbial
communities. This review describes recent exploitations of high-throughput sequencing …

[HTML][HTML] Biochemistry, lipopolysaccharide

A Farhana, YS Khan - StatPearls [Internet], 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are important outer membrane components of gram-negative
bacteria. They are large amphipathic glycoconjugates that typically consist of a lipid domain …

Impact of benzalkonium chloride, benzethonium chloride and chloroxylenol on bacterial antimicrobial resistance

JY Maillard - Journal of Applied Microbiology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This review examined 3655 articles on benzalkonium chloride (BKC), benzethonium
chloride (BZT) and chloroxylenol (CHO) aiming to understand their impact on antimicrobial …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibition of Biofilm Formation and Related Gene Expression of Listeria monocytogenes in Response to Four Natural Antimicrobial Compounds and Sodium …

Y Liu, L Wu, J Han, P Dong, X Luo, Y Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of four natural antimicrobial compounds
(cinnamaldehyde, eugenol, resveratrol and thymoquinone) plus a control chemical …

Tolerance of Listeria monocytogenes to quaternary ammonium sanitizers is mediated by a novel efflux pump encoded by emrE

J Kovacevic, J Ziegler… - Applied and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A novel genomic island (LGI1) was discovered in Listeria monocytogenes
isolates responsible for the deadliest listeriosis outbreak in Canada, in 2008. To investigate …

Stress survival islet 2, predominantly present in Listeria monocytogenes strains of sequence type 121, is involved in the alkaline and oxidative stress responses

E Harter, EM Wagner, A Zaiser… - Applied and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is able to survive a variety of stress
conditions leading to the colonization of different niches like the food processing …

[HTML][HTML] Genomes of sequence type 121 Listeria monocytogenes strains harbor highly conserved plasmids and prophages

S Schmitz-Esser, A Müller, B Stessl… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The food-borne pathogen Listeria (L.) monocytogenes is often found in food production
environments. Thus, controlling the occurrence of L. monocytogenes in food production is a …

[HTML][HTML] Susceptibility and transcriptomic response to plasma-activated water of Listeria monocytogenes planktonic and sessile cells

P Fernández-Gómez, JF Cobo-Díaz, M Oliveira… - Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Plasma-Activated Water (PAW) was generated from tap water using a surface
dielectric barrier discharge at different discharge power (26 and 36 W) and activation time (5 …

Comparative genomics unveils extensive genomic variation between populations of Listeria species in natural and food-associated environments

J Liao, X Guo, S Li, SMB Anupoju… - ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Comprehending bacterial genomic variation linked to distinct environments can yield novel
insights into mechanisms underlying differential adaptation and transmission of microbes …