Historical and contemporary NaCl concentrations affect the duration and distribution of lag times from individual spores of nonproteolytic Clostridium botulinum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2118-2127

  Webb, Martin D ^a   Pin, Carmen ^a   Peck, Michael W ^a   Stringer, Sandra C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MICROORGANISMS; OSMOSIS;

CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; GERMINATION; SPORE POPULATIONS; SPORULATION;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GERMINATION; GROWTH; HETEROGENEITY; INHIBITION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPORE; SPORULATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPORE GERMINATION;

CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CULTURE MEDIA; PROBABILITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TIME FACTORS;

CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM;

EID: 34247550698     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01744-06     Document Type: Article

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