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Characterisation of Listeria monocytogenes isolates from cattle using a bovine caruncular epithelial cell model (2020)
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© 2020 Listeria monocytogenes is an important foodborne pathogen in human and veterinary health, causing significant morbidity and mortality including abortion. It has a particular tropism for the gravid uterus, however, the route of infection in rep... Read More about Characterisation of Listeria monocytogenes isolates from cattle using a bovine caruncular epithelial cell model.

The development and use of Actiphage® to detect viable mycobacteria from bovine tuberculosis and Johne’s disease-infected animals (2019)
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© 2019 The Authors. Microbial Biotechnology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Society for Applied Microbiology. Here, we describe the development of a method that exploits bacteriophage D29 as a lysis agent for efficient DNA extraction from lo... Read More about The development and use of Actiphage® to detect viable mycobacteria from bovine tuberculosis and Johne’s disease-infected animals.

A novel high sensitivity bacteriophage-based assay identifies low level Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteraemia in immunocompetent patients with active and incipient tuberculosis (2019)
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Haematogenous dissemination of M. tuberculosis (Mtb) is critical to pathogenesis of progressive tuberculous infection in animal models. Using a novel phage-based blood assay, we report the first concordant evidence in well-characterised immunocompete... Read More about A novel high sensitivity bacteriophage-based assay identifies low level Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteraemia in immunocompetent patients with active and incipient tuberculosis.

Evidence that Listeria innocua modulates its membrane’s stored curvature elastic stress, but not fluidity, through the cell cycle (2017)
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Furse, S., Jakubec, M., Rise, F., Williams, H. E., Rees, C., & Halskau, Ø. (2017). Evidence that Listeria innocua modulates its membrane’s stored curvature elastic stress, but not fluidity, through the cell cycle. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 8012. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06855-z

This paper reports that the abundances of endogenous cardiolipin and phosphatidylethanolamine halve during elongation of the Gram-positive bacterium Listeria innocua. The lyotropic phase behaviour of model lipid systems that describe these modulation... Read More about Evidence that Listeria innocua modulates its membrane’s stored curvature elastic stress, but not fluidity, through the cell cycle.

Draft genome sequences of Listeria monocytogenes, isolated from fresh leaf vegetables in Owerri City, Nigeria (2017)
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Nwaiwu, O., Moura, A., Thouvenot, P., Rees, C., Leclercq, A., & Lecuit, M. (2017). Draft genome sequences of Listeria monocytogenes, isolated from fresh leaf vegetables in Owerri City, Nigeria. Genome Announcements, 5(22), Article e00354. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomea.00354-17

Here, we report the draft genome sequences of three Listeria monocytogenes isolates from fresh leaves collected in Nigeria, belonging to sequence types ST5 and ST155 (sublineages SL5 and SL155, respectively).