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Measuring Bacterial Load and Immune Responses in Mice Infected with Listeria monocytogenes
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Traditional Methods of Analysis for Listeria monocytogenes
Rui Magalhães1, Cristina Mena1, Vânia Ferreira1
1Universidade Católica Portuguesa, CBQF-Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina-Laboratório Associado, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Rua Diogo Botelho 1327, Porto, Portugal.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|September 25, 2020
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Conventional methods for the detection of Listeria monocytogenes in foods and environmental samples rely on selective pre-enrichment, enrichment, and plating. This is followed by confirmation of suspected colonies by testing a limited number of biochemical markers.
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