Lethality of a heat- and phosphate-catalyzed glucose by-product to Escherichia coli O157:H7 and partial protection conferred by the rpoS regulon

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2396-2401

  Byrd, Jeffrey J ^a   Cheville, Ann M ^b   Bose, Jeffrey L ^b   Kaspar, Charles W ^b  

^a ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLUCOSE; PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CATALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; KLEBSIELLA; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA SP.; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0033050517     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.6.2396-2401.1999     Document Type: Article

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