Incidence and characterization of Listeria monocytogenes from domestic and imported foods in Korea

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 186-189

  Baek, Sun Young ^a   Lim, Soon Young ^a   Lee, Dong Ha ^a   Min, Kyung Hee ^b   Kim, Chang Min ^a  

^a Korea Food and Drug Administration   (South Korea)

^b Sookmyung Women's University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ISOLATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; KOREA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GALLUS GALLUS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 0034141344     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-63.2.186     Document Type: Article

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