Listeria spp. in the coastal environment of the Aqaba Gulf, Suez Gulf and the Red Sea

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 752-757

  El Shenawy, Moustafa A ^a   El Shenawy, Mohamed A ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; LISTERIA; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PH; PREVALENCE; SALINITY; SEA; SEA FOOD; SHELLFISH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; EGYPT; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; SEAFOOD; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 33745557401     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805005601     Document Type: Article

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