Significance of inoculum size in the lag time of Listeria monocytogenes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1706-1710

  Augustin, Jean Christophe ^a   Brouillaud Delattre, Agnes̀s ^b   Rosso, Laurent ^c   Carlier, Vincent ^a  

^a ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

^b Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^c Groupe Danone   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COLONY FORMING UNIT; GROWTH RATE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; STARVATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FORECASTING; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034127003     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.4.1706-1710.2000     Document Type: Article

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