Isolation of Enterobacter sakazakii and other Enterobacter sp. from food and food production environments

Food Control

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1241-1245

  Shaker, Reyad ^a   Osaili, Tareq ^a   Al Omary, Wail ^b   Jaradat, Ziad ^a   Al Zuby, Mahmoud ^b  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b Institute of Standards and Metrology   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Enterobacter sakazakii; Infant formula; Production environments

Indexed keywords

ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTER SAKAZAKII; ENTEROBACTER SP.;

EID: 34047103330     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2006.07.020     Document Type: Article

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