Diarrhoeal enterotoxin production by psychrotrophic Bacillus cereus present in reconstituted milk-based infant formulae (MIF)

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 161-165

  Rowan, N J ^a   Anderson, J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY;

ENTEROTOXIGENIC; ENTEROTOXINS; EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITIES; FOOD POISONING; FORMULA ONE; INFANT FORMULA; RECONSTITUTED MILK; REFRIGERATION TEMPERATURES;

BACILLUS CEREUS;

ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM DETECTION; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD STORAGE; NONHUMAN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031971520     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.1998.00301.x     Document Type: Article

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