| Literature DB >> 24251077 |
Jochen Klumpp1, Martin J Loessner.
Abstract
Listeria is an important foodborne pathogen and the causative agent of Listeriosis, a potentially fatal infection. Several hundred Listeria bacteriophages have been described over the past decades, but only few have actually been characterized in some detail, and genome sequences are available for less than twenty of them. We here present an overview of what is currently known about Listeria phage genomics, their role in host evolution and pathogenicity, and their various applications in biotechnology and diagnostics.Entities:
Keywords: CRISPR; Mosaic genomes; biocontrol; comK; endolysin; homologous recombination; pathogen detection; reporter phage
Year: 2013 PMID: 24251077 PMCID: PMC3827098 DOI: 10.4161/bact.26861
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bacteriophage ISSN: 2159-7073