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POLISH JOURNAL OF VETERINARY SCIENCES
Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 697-702Publisher
POLSKA AKAD NAUK, POLISH ACAD SCIENCES, UNIV WARMIA & MAZURY OLSZTYN
DOI: 10.1515/pjvs-2015-0090
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Listeria monocytogenes; animals; invasiveness
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Animals are important reservoir of Listeria monocytogenes, a pathogen causing serious infections in both humans and livestock. However, data on invasiveness of L. monocytogenes strains of animal origin is very scarce. Ability of 18 L. monocytogenes strains of animal origin to invade HT-29 cells was investigated. Plaque forming assay was used to assess invasiveness and ability of the pathogen to spread in the cell line. Almost 40% of L. monocytogenes strains were weakly invasive. It was shown that strains from serogroup 4b exhibited the highest invasiveness, whereas serogroup 1/2b consisted of strains of invasiveness below 0.0001%. Analysis of translated inlA and inlB gene sequences revealed no premature stop codons. Lineage-specific mutations in low invasive strains were identified within inlA and inlB sequences. Our results demonstrate high incidence of low invasive animal L. monocytogenes strains, which may be at least partly explained by unique point mutations in the InlA and InlB.
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