Growth and diarrhoeagenic enterotoxin formation by strains of Bacillus cereus in vitro in controlled fermentations and in situ in food products and a model food system

Food Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 329-340

  Beattie, Sally H ^a,b   Williams, Alan G ^a  

^a HANNAH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b Quest International   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS CEREUS;

EID: 0036707064     PISSN: 07400020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/fmic.2002.0485     Document Type: Article

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