Persistence of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 in soil and on leaf lettuce and parsley grown in fields treated with contaminated manure composts or irrigation water

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1365-1370

  Islam, Mahbub ^a   Doyle, Michael P ^a   Phatak, Sharad C ^b   Millner, Patricia ^c   Jiang, Xiuping ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTUCA; PETROSELINUM CRISPUM;

EID: 3242682772     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-67.7.1365     Document Type: Article

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