Growth from spores of nonproteolytic Clostridium botulinum in heat- treated vegetable juice

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2136-2142

  Stringer, Sandra C ^a   Haque, Nuzrul ^a   Peck, Michael W ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSOZYME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH RATE; HEAT TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PH; REACTION TIME; THERMOSTABILITY; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; VEGETABLE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. RAPA; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); POSIBACTERIA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0032932424     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.5.2136-2142.1999     Document Type: Article

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