date:Feb 13, 2019
acteria, adding a valuable tool to prevent food contamination through tainted food.
Listeria monocytogenes infects around 1,600 people in the US each year with flu-like symptoms, with about one in five of those infections ending in death. The computer model, which is described in the January issue of Scientific Reports, has the potential to be modified for a wide range of microbes and locations, say the scientists.
The goal is to build a decision-support tool for control of any pathogen in an