Survey on the Listeria contamination of ready-to-eat food products and household environments in Vienna, Austria

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 16-22

  Wagner, M ^a   Auer, B ^a   Trittremmel, C ^a   Hein, I ^a   Schoder, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Household; Listeria; Prevalence; Retail

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; PRODUCT SAFETY; RISK FACTOR; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MEAT PRODUCTS; RISK FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 33847310334     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2007.00982.x     Document Type: Article

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