Factors influencing the ability of Listeria monocytogenes to pass through a membrane filter by active infiltration

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 7571-7574

  Nakazawa, Kentaro ^a   Hasegawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakagawa, Yoji ^a   Terao, Michinori ^b   Matsuyama, Tohey ^c  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; BIOREACTORS; GENES; INFILTRATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PORE SIZE;

FLAGELLAR MOTILITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; MEMBRANE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL MOTILITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE FILTER; NONHUMAN; POROSITY;

CULTURE MEDIA; FILTRATION; FLAGELLA; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROPORE FILTERS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; STERILIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 32044453093     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.11.7571-7574.2005     Document Type: Article

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