Volume 17, Number 6—June 2011

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Worldwide Distribution of Major Clones of Listeria monocytogenes

Viviane Chenal-Francisque¹, Jodie Lopez¹, Thomas Cantinelli, Valerie Caro, Coralie Tran, Alexandre Leclercq, Marc Lecuit², and Sylvain Brisse² 

Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (V. Chenal-Francisque, J. Lopez, T. Cantinelli, V. Caro, C. Tran, A. Leclercq, M. Lecuit, S. Brisse); World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Listeria, Paris (V. Chenal-Francisque, A. Leclercq, M. Lecuit); Inserm Avenir U604, Paris (M. Lecuit); Université Paris Descartes, Paris (M. Lecuit)

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Figure. Number of isolates from 7 world regions where the most prevalent clones of Listeria monocytogenes are found.

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¹These authors contributed equally to this study.

²These authors contributed equally to this study.

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