Chapter 1 Sampling the Processing Environment for Listeria

Chapter 2 Traditional Methods for Isolation of Listeria monocytogenes

Chapter 3 Confirmation of Isolates of Listeria by Conventional and Real-Time PCR

Chapter 4 Serotype Assignment by Sero-Agglutination, ELISA, and PCR

Chapter 6 Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) of Listeria monocytogenes

Chapter 7 Ribotyping and Automated Ribotyping of Listeria monocytogenes

Chapter 8 Fluorescent Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (fAFLP) Analysis of Listeria monocytogenes

Chapter 9 High-Throughput Characterization of Listeria monocytogenes Using the OmniLog Phenotypic Microarray

Chapter 10 Analysis of Listeria monocytogenes Subproteomes.

Chapter 11 The Listeria Cell Wall and Associated Carbohydrate Polymers

Chapter 12 Use of Bacteriophage Cell Wall-Binding Proteins for Rapid Diagnostics of Listeria

Chapter 13 Virulence Characterization of Listeria monocytogenes

Chapter 14 Internalization Assays for Listeria monocytogenes

Chapter 15 Extraction and Analysis of Plasmid DNA from Listeria monocytogenes

Chapter 16 Generation of Nonpolar Deletion Mutants in Listeria monocytogenes Using the “SOEing” Method

Chapter 17 Mutant Construction and Integration Vector-Mediated Gene Complementation in Listeria monocytogenes.

Chapter 18 Absolute and Relative Gene Expression in Listeria monocytogenes Using Real-Time PCR

Chapter 19 Genome Sequencing of Listeria monocytogenes.

Chapter 20 Using Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein (EGFP) Promoter Fusions to Study Gene Regulation at Single Cell and Population Levels

Chapter 21 Control of Listeria monocytogenes in the Processing Environment by Understanding Biofilm Formation and Resistance to Sanitizers

Chapter 22 Vaccination Studies: Detection of a Listeria monocytogenes- Specific T Cell Immune Response Using the ELISPOT Technique

Chapter 23 Sampling the Food Processing Environment: Taking Up the Cudgel for Preventive Quality Management in Food Processing Environments