Escherichia coli O26 detection from foods using an enrichment procedure and an immunomagnetic separation method

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 151-154

  Hara Kudo, Yukiko ^a   Konuma, H ^b   Nakagawa, H ^c   Kumagai, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Kenbikyo in Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEEF; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY;

COLONY FORMING UNITS; E. COLI; E. COLI O157; E.COLI O157; GROUND BEEF; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; NOVOBIOCIN; SEPARATION METHODS; TRYPTONE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AGAR; NOVOBIOCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI 026; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; RAPHANUS SATIVUS;

EID: 0034050176     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765x.2000.00686.x     Document Type: Article

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