Simultaneous recovery of four heat-injured foodborne pathogens from a four-compartment thin agar layer plate

Journal of Food Science

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 646-648

  Wu, V C H ^a   Fung, D Y C ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

4 compartment TAL unit; Injured pathogens

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0141675088     PISSN: 00221147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.2003.tb05724.x     Document Type: Article

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