Rabbit meat as a source of bacterial foodborne pathogens

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1106-1112

  Rodríguez Calleja, Jose M ^a   García López, Isabel ^a   García López, María Luisa ^a   Santos, Jesús A ^a   Otero, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AEROMONAS POPOFFII; AEROMONAS PUNCTATA; AEROMONAS SCHUBERTII; AEROMONAS VERONII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H7; LISTERIA; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA IVANOVII; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIA SEELIGERI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SALMONELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 33646480040     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-69.5.1106     Document Type: Article

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