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Despite the description of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">L. monocytogenes</jats:italic>\n                    occurrence in Brazilian food-processing facilities and foods, there is a lack of consistent data regarding listeriosis cases and outbreaks directly associated with food consumption. Listeriosis requires rapid treatment with antibiotics and most drugs suitable for Gram-positive bacteria are effective against\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">L. monocytogenes</jats:italic>\n                    . Only a minority of clinical antibiotic-resistant\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">L. monocytogenes</jats:italic>\n                    strains have been described so far; whereas many strains recovered from food-processing facilities and foods exhibited resistance to antimicrobials not suitable against listeriosis.\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">L. monocytogenes</jats:italic>\n                    control in food industries is a challenge, demanding proper cleaning and application of sanitization procedures to eliminate this foodborne pathogen from the food-processing environment and ensure food safety. This review focuses on presenting the\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">L. monocytogenes</jats:italic>\n                    distribution in food-processing environment, food contamination, and control in the food industry, as well as the consequences of listeriosis to human health, providing a comparison of the current Brazilian situation with the international scenario.\n                  </jats:p>","journal":"Foodborne Pathogens and Disease","year":2017,"id":681979,"datarank":0.6907755278982138,"base_score":4.605170185988092,"endowment":4.605170185988092,"self_citation_contribution":0.6907755278982138,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.6907755278982138,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":99,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1781745,"name":"Joshua John Woodward","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1781746,"name":"Douglas Ruben Call","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1781747,"name":"Luís Augusto Nero","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1781744,"name":"Anderson Carlos Camargo","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"<i>Listeria monocytogenes</i>\n                    in Food-Processing Facilities, Food Contamination, and Human Listeriosis: The Brazilian Scenario","abstract":"<jats:p>\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Listeria monocytogenes</jats:italic>\n                    is a foodborne pathogen that contaminates food-processing environments and persists within biofilms on equipment, utensils, floors, and drains, ultimately reaching final products by cross-contamination. 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