Functional and Safety Aspects of Enterococci Isolated from Different Spanish Foods

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 118-130

  Ben Omar, Nabil ^a   Castro, Araceli ^a   Lucas, Rosario ^a   Abriouel, Hikmate ^a   Yousif, Nuha M K ^b   Franz, Charles M A P ^b   Holzapfel, Wilhelm H ^b   Pérez Pulido, Rubén ^a   Martínez Cañamero, Magdalena ^a   Gálvez, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION AND FOOD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enterococcus; Food safety; Microbial ecology

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DALFOPRISTIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GELATINASE; GENTAMICIN; HEMOLYSIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINUPRISTIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DAIRY PRODUCT; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD; FOOD SAFETY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEAT; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; STRUCTURAL GENE; VEGETABLE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 12144288566     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0723-2020-00248     Document Type: Article

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