Development of a L-rhamnose and D-arabitol supplemented MacConkey agar to identify pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica among environmental Yersinias in swine production wastes

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 289-292

  Shehee, M W ^a,b   Sobsey, M D ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential medium; Swine wastes; Yersinia enterocolitica

Indexed keywords

ARABINITOL; RHAMNOSE;

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; WASTE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; FECES; FOOD INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; RHAMNOSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUGAR ALCOHOLS; SWINE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

SUS SCROFA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 1842562208     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2004.01.014     Document Type: Article

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