Determination of bacteriocin activity with bioassays carried out on solid and liquid substrates: Assessing the factor "indicator microorganism"

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Papagianni, Maria ^a   Avramidis, Nicholaos ^a   Filioussis, George ^a   Dasiou, Despina ^b   Ambrosiadis, Ioannis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; NISIN;

ACCURACY; AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LACTOBACILLUS CURVATUS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOBACILLUS SAKEI; LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PEDIOCOCCUS ACIDILACTICI; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBIDIMETRY;

LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CURVATUS; LEUCONOSTOC; MICROCOCCUS; PEDIOCOCCUS; PEDIOCOCCUS ACIDILACTICI;

EID: 33750599353     PISSN: 14752859     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-5-30     Document Type: Article

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