Evidence of lethal and sublethal injury in food-borne bacterial pathogens exposed to high-intensity pulsed-plasma gas discharges

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-86

  Rowan, N J ^a   Espie, S ^b   Harrower, J ^b   Farrell, H ^a   Marsili, L ^b   Anderson, J G ^b   MacGregor, S J ^b  

^a Athletic Rehabilitation Therapy Ireland   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluorescent metabolic probes; HACCP; Microbial inactivation; Pulsed power electrotechnologies; Sublethal injury

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HEAT TREATMENT; SALMONELLA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTROTECHNOLOGIES; EXPOSED TO; FLUORESCENT METABOLIC PROBE; HACCP; HIGH INTENSITY; MICROBIAL INACTIVATION; PULSED PLASMA GAS DISCHARGES; PULSED POWER ELECTROTECHNOLOGY; PULSED-POWER; SUBLETHAL INJURY;

PROBES;

5 CYANO 2,3 DITOLYL TETRAZOLIUM CHLORIDE; AGAR; FLUORESCENT DYE; NITRILE; TETRAZOLIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE; PATHOGENS; REDOX REACTIONS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE; GAS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INHIBITION; INJURY; PATHOGEN; PLASMA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM COLONY; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEAT TREATMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LETHALITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEROTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 37549000179     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2007.02268.x     Document Type: Article

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