Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogenic microorganism that is one of the most dangerous pathogens of foodborne diseases and determines the incidence of this pathology throughout the world. Listeria is transmitted through food, but there is a chance of infection through airborne droplets through the decay products of host cells, as well as through contact.
L. monocytogenes: properties, classification, distribution, diagnostic methods * Taxonomy of the organism - order - Bacillales - family - Bacillaceae - genus - Listeria - species - Listeria innocua The prototype of the species L. innocua was isolated in 1953 by Bavier