Expanding the bactericidal action of the food color additive phloxine B to gram-negative bacteria

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 239-244

  Rasooly, Reuven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

(D C red no. 28); Bactericidal; Phloxine B

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERICIDE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; EDETIC ACID; FOOD ADDITIVE; PHLOXINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MYCOIDES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COUNT; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DRUG POTENCY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENT LIGHTING; FOOD COLOR; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA CHLORAESUIS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHLORAMPHENICOL; EDETIC ACID; EOSINE I BLUISH; FLUORESCENT DYES; FOOD COLORING AGENTS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 22844433544     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsim.2005.04.004     Document Type: Article

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