Quantitative assessment of contamination of fresh food produce of various retail types by human-virulent microsporidian spores

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4071-4073

  Jedrzejewski, Szymon ^a   Graczyk, Thaddeus K ^b   Slodkowicz Kowalska, Anna ^a   Tamang, Leena ^b   Majewska, Anna C ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONTAMINATION; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PROTOZOA;

FOOD BORNE INFECTION; MICROSPORIDIAN SPORES;

FRUITS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; FOOD QUALITY; FUNGUS; HEALTH RISK; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETAILING;

ARTICLE; BERRY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FOOD CONTAMINATION; LEAFY VEGETABLE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MICROSPORUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; SPROUT;

ANIMALS; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FRUIT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSPORIDIA; POLAND; VEGETABLES;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI;

EID: 34250835637     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00477-07     Document Type: Article

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