Acid tolerance of acid-adapted and nonacid-adapted Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains in beef decontamination runoff fluids or on beef tissue

Food Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 530-538

  Stopforth, Jarret D ^a   Skandamis, Panagiotis N ^a   Geornaras, Ifigenia ^a   Sofos, John N ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid tolerance; Beef decontamination runoff fluids; Beef tissue; E. coli O157:H7; Individual or mixed strains

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CATTLE; DISINFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; SAFETY; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CATTLE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DISINFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTIC ACID; MEAT; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33947183501     PISSN: 07400020     EISSN: 10959998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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