Modelling the growth limits (growth/no growth interface) of Escherichia coli as a function of temperature, pH, lactic acid concentration, and water activity

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1773-1779

  Presser, K A ^a   Ross, T ^a   Ratkowsky, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

BACTERIA; GROWTH MODEL; MODELLING;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; GROWTH INHIBITION; HYDRATION; NONHUMAN; PH; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031834558     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.5.1773-1779.1998     Document Type: Article

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