Interactions between the environmental p
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Xiaohui Zhou; Jennifer Elmose; Douglas R. Call
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Summary __Listeria monocytogenes__ can cause severe disease in animal hosts, but it has no recognized animal host reservoir. We tested the hypothesis that __L. monocytogenes__ retains virulence traits to survive predation by amoebae and that listeriolysin O plays a crucial role in this process.