Real-time monitoring of Escherichia coli O157:H7 adherence to beef carcass surface tissues with a bioluminescent reporter

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1738-1745

  Siragusa, Gregory R ^a   Nawotka, Kevin ^b   Spilman, Stanley D ^b   Contag, Pamela R ^b   Contag, Christopher H ^b  

^a U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CATTLE; CONTAMINATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032936093     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.4.1738-1745.1999     Document Type: Article

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