Inactivation of Bacillus anthracis spores by a combination of biocides and heating under high-temperature short-time pasteurization conditions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3336-3341

  Xu, Sa ^a   Labuza, Theodore P ^a   Diez Gonzalez, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI METALS; BACTERIOLOGY; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; ENERGY RESOURCES; FOOD PROCESSING; HEAT TREATMENT; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MICROFLUIDICS; MIXING; NUMERICAL METHODS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SODIUM; STRAIN;

(E ,3E) PROCESS; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; AMERICAN SOCIETY; B. ANTHRACIS SPORES; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS SPORES; BIOTERRORISM ATTACK; COMBINED TREATMENT; CONTAMINATED MILK; HIGH TEMPERATURE (HT); HIGH TEMPERATURE SHORT TIME (HTST) PROCESSING; INTENTIONAL CONTAMINATION; LOG REDUCTIONS; MILK SUPPLY; PEROXYACETIC ACID (PAA); PROTECTIVE MEASURES; SODIUM HYPOCHLORITES; TREATMENT STRATEGIES;

BIOCIDES;

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM; PERACETIC ACID;

BACTERIUM; HEATING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MILK; NEUTRALIZATION; PESTICIDE; SPORE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; HEATING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MILK; NONHUMAN; PASTEURIZATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; TIME;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CATTLE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; HEAT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MILK; PERACETIC ACID; PHOSPHINIC ACIDS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TIME FACTORS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS;

EID: 44949248432     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02072-07     Document Type: Article

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