Evaluation of the Weibull and log normal distribution functions as survival models of Escherichia coli under isothermal and non isothermal conditions

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 243-257

  Aragao, Glaucia M F ^b   Corradini, Maria G ^a   Normand, Mark D ^a   Peleg, Micha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dynamic inactivation; Escherichia coli; Log normal distribution; Predictive microbiology; Survival curves; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUBERGINE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION; LETHALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; KINETICS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TEMPERATURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 36048960431     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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