Response of Micromonospora echinospora (NCIMB 12744) spores to heat treatment with evidence of a heat activation phenomenon

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 114-117

  Hoskisson, Paul A ^a   Hobbs, G ^a   Sharples, G P ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

% REDUCTIONS; CULTURABLE; EFFECT OF HEAT TREATMENTS; EXTERNAL ENERGY; HEAT ACTIVATION; HOLDING TIME; PHOSPHATE BUFFERS; STORAGE COMPOUNDS; THERMAL; TIME-PERIODS;

HEAT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; HEAT TOLERANCE; HEAT TREATMENT; MICROMONOSPORA; NONHUMAN;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAACKIA; MICROMONOSPORA; MICROMONOSPORA ECHINOSPORA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0034008028     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765x.2000.00680.x     Document Type: Article

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