Interactions between food-borne pathogens and protozoa isolated from lettuce and spinach

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2518-2525

  Gourabathini, Poornima ^a   Brandi, Maria T ^b   Redding, Katherine S ^a   Gunderson, John H ^a   Berk, Sharon G ^a  

^a TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PATHOGENS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ACANTHAMOEBA PALESTINENSIS; FLUORESCING BACTERIA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

BACTERIA;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; FOOD; ISOLATED POPULATION; LEAFY VEGETABLE; PATHOGEN; PROTOZOAN; SURVIVAL;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA PALESTINENSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CELL INTERACTION; CELL VACUOLE; CILIATE; COLPODA STEINII; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GLAUCOMA SCINTILLANS; LETTUCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PROTOZOON; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SPINACH; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LETTUCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROTOZOA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SPINACIA OLERACEA; STAINING AND LABELING; TRANSPORT VESICLES;

ACANTHAMOEBA PALESTINENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; COLPODA STEINII; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLAUCOMA (CILIATE); LACTUCA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SPINACIA OLERACEA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS; TETRAHYMENA SP.;

EID: 42349087752     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02709-07     Document Type: Article

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