Monitoring enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 in the vegetable food chain in Ghana

Research Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 423-428

  Donkor, Eric S ^a   Lanyo, Richard ^a   Akyeh, Moses L ^b   Kayang, Boniface B ^a   Quaye, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Accra; Escherichia coli O157:H7; Irrigation; Livestock; Manure

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 51949088749     PISSN: 18164935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jm.2008.423.428     Document Type: Article

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