Suitability of selective media for recovery and enumeration of sublethally heat- and acid-injured listeria monocytogenes

Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 307-316

  Williams, Robert C ^a   Golden, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 0032262374     PISSN: 10603999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-4581.1998.tb00211.x     Document Type: Article

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