The gram-positive bacterium Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of listeriosis, a
highly fatal opportunistic foodborne infection. Pregnant women, neonates, the elderly, and …

Bacterial pathogens employ a number of genetic strategies to cause infection and,
occasionally, disease in their hosts. Many of these virulence factors and their regulatory …

Many bacteria that cause diseases of humans, animals and plants use flagella to move. This
review summarises recent studies that have analysed the role of motility and chemotaxis in …

Intracellular pathogens are responsible for much of the world-wide morbidity and mortality
due to infectious diseases. To colonize their hosts successfully, pathogens must sense their …

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 …

Following the initial isolation and description in 1926 Listeria monocytogenes has been
shown to be of worldwide prevalence and is associated with serious disease in a wide …

Short-sequence DNA repeat (SSR) loci can be identified in all eukaryotic and many
prokaryotic genomes. These loci harbor short or long stretches of repeated nucleotide …

The plcA gene of Listeria monocytogenes encodes a secreted phosphatidylinositol‐speciftc
phospholi‐pase C (PI‐PLC). Recent studies have established that transposon mutations …

A number of technical advances have led to the recent renaissance in the study of L.
monocytogenes. The first was the development of tissue culture models of infection in a …

The brush border (BB) of the enterocyte is a well-studied example of the actin-based
cytoskeleton. We describe here a cell culture model that expresses a faithful representation …