A competitive microflora increases the resistance of Salmonella typhimurium to inimical processes: Evidence for a suicide response

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1323-1327

  Aldsworth, Timothy G ^a   Sharman, Rachel L ^a   Dodd, Christine E R ^a   Stewart, Gordon S A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; REPORTER GENE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SURVIVAL RATE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031977634     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.4.1323-1327.1998     Document Type: Article

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