The Effect of Oxygen on Bile Resistance in Listeria monocytogenes

Morgan L Wright¹, Ken Pendarvis², Bindu Nanduri³, Mariola J Edelmann⁴, Haley N Jenkins¹, Joseph S Reddy³, Jessica G Wilson¹, Xuan Ding⁵, Paul R Broadway⁶, Mais G Ammari², Oindrila Paul¹, Brandy Roberts¹ and Janet R Donaldson^*#

¹Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA

²School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

³Department of Basic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA

⁴Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

⁵Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing and Biotechnology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA

⁶Livestock Issues Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Lubbock, TX 79403, USA

^#Contributed equally to this work

^*Corresponding Author: Janet R Donaldson, Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA, Tel: 1-662-325- 9547