Monitoring the microbial contamination of beef carcass tissue with a rapid chromogenic Limulus amoebocyte lysate endpoint assay

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 178-183

  Siragusa, G R ^a,b   Kang, D H ^a   Cutter, C N ^a,c  

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

^b RUSSELL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; TISSUE;

COLIFORMS; LIMULUS AMEBOCYTE LYSATE; MESOPHILIC; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROPLATE READERS; NEAR-REAL TIME; SURFACE SAMPLE;

BEEF;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CARCASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; LIMULUS LYSATE TEST; MEAT; NONHUMAN;

LIMULUS AMOEBOCYTE;

EID: 0033837189     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2672.2000.00795.x     Document Type: Article

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