Postadaptational resistance to benzalkonium chloride and subsequent physicochemical modifications of Listeria monocytogenes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 5258-5264

  To, Monica S ^a   Favrin, Stacy ^a   Romanova, Nadya ^a   Griffiths, Mansel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; DISINFECTANTS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; FATTY ACIDS; HYDROPHOBICITY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

SEROLOGICAL TESTING;

BACTERIA;

BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; FATTY ACID; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; SURFACTANT;

PATHOGEN;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID COMPOSITION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; SEROLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036840111     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.11.5258-5264.2002     Document Type: Article

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