Original language | English |
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Pages | 1151E |
Volume | 14 |
No. | 2 |
Specialist publication | EFSA Supporting Publications |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2017 |
Bibliographical note
We would like to thank all the persons and institutes that have provided the project with isolates andaccompanying information. Without them, this project would not have been possible.
Lin Cathrine T. Brandal, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
Julio Vázquez Moreno and Raquel Abad Torreblanca, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
Marc Lecuit, Institut Pasteur, France
Alexandre Leclercq, Institut Pasteur, France
Iva Hristova, National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Bulgaria
Marija Trkov, National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food, Slovenia
Cecilia Jernberg, Public Health Agency of Sweden, Sweden
Ariane Pietzka, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Austria
Eelco Franz and Ingrid Friesema, RIVM, The Netherlands
Carlo Spanu, University of Sassari Sardinia
Ifip, French Institute for Pig and Pork Industry, Maisons-Alfort, France
All the NRLs for providing the isolates from the EU baseline study
Special thanks to Sylvain Brisse and Alexandra Moura, Institut Pasteur, France, for providing cgMLST
data.
The authors would also like to thank the EFSA staff members: Maria Teresa da Silva Felicio, Beatriz
Guerra, Ernesto Lìebana and Valentina Rizzi as well as the members of the Working Group on Listeria
monocytogenes contamination of ready-to-eat foods: Kostas Koutsoumanis, Roland Lindqvist, Moez
Sanaa, Panagiotis Skandamis, Niko Speybroek, Johanna Takkinen and Martin Wagner for the support,
revisions and suggestions during the development of the present procurement activity and report.
Keywords
- listeria monocytogenes
- Whole genome sequencing
- genetic diversity
- phylogeny
- food
- human