| |
| | Listeria - MicrobeWiki |
 | | Listeria is widely distributed throughout the environment, inhabiting soil, decaying vegetable matter, sewage, water, animal feed, fresh and frozen poultry, processed meats, raw milk, cheese, and humans. |
 | | Listeria is an intracellular pathogen where they co-opt the cell's machinery, and travel through the blood stream, once they make it through the gastrointestinal tract. |
 | | Listeria is capable of infecting macrophages, which acquire the pathogen through phagocytosis, or epithelial cells, which are infected when listeria induces cytoskeletal changes and plasma membrane extensions. |
| microbewiki.kenyon.edu /mediawiki-1.6.6/index.php/Listeria (652 words) |
|