Listeria species in domestic environments

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 437-442

  Beumer, R R ^a   Te Giffel, M C ^a   Spoorenberg, E ^a   Rombouts, F M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BATH; DRAIN; FREEZING; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS;

EID: 0029730099     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268800059094     Document Type: Article

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