Enumeration of Enterobacteriaceae in various foods with a new automated most-probable-number method compared with petrifilm and international organization for standardization procedures

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 376-379

  Paulsen, P ^a   Borgetti, C ^b   Schopf, E ^a   Smulders, F J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b Giuseppe Citterio Salumificio SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE;

EID: 39149089630     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-71.2.376     Document Type: Article

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