Combined Effects of High Hydrostatic Pressure and Temperature for Inactivation of Bacillus anthracis Spores

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 635-637

  Cléry Barraud, Cécile ^a   Gaubert, Agnès ^a   Masson, Patrick ^a   Vidal, Dominique ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DISINFECTANTS; HEAT TREATMENT; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; IRRADIATION; PRESSURIZATION;

INACTIVATION KINETICS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

DISINFECTANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; DISINFECTION; HEAT TREATMENT; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; IRRADIATION; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; SPOROGENESIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; DISINFECTION; HEAT; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TEMPERATURE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0347129993     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.1.635-637.2004     Document Type: Article

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