| listeria monocytogenes in rte foods marketed in italy: prevalence and automated ecori ribotyping of the isolates. | the aims of the present study were: (a) to investigate the prevalence and the enumeration of listeria monocytogenes in 200 samples of ready to eat (rte) foods of animal and vegetal origin collected from different outlets and processing plants in sardinia; (b) to characterize the isolates by phenotypical and molecular methods; (c) to analyze a subset of 42 l. monocytogenes by automated ecori ribotyping in order to predict the strain's potential virulence for humans. the strains were isolated from ... | 2009 | 19100643 |