Incidence of Clostridium botulinum spores in honey in Turkey

Food Control

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 222-224

  Küplülü, Özlem ^a   Göncüoǧlu, Muammer ^a   Özdemir, Haydar ^a   Koluman, Ahmet ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

C. botulinum; Honey; Infant botulism

Indexed keywords

ANKARA; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM;

EID: 24644469188     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2004.10.004     Document Type: Article

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