Interaction of Escherichia coli with Growing Salad Spinach Plants

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1790-1797

  Warriner, Keith ^a,b   Ibrahim, Faozia ^a   Dickinson, Matthew ^a   Wright, Charles ^a   Waites, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 0142126837     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-66.10.1790     Document Type: Article

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