Microscopic and molecular studies of the diversity of free-living protozoa in meat-cutting plants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 5741-5749

  Vaerewijck, Mario J M ^a   Sabbe, Koen ^a   Baré, Julie ^a   Houf, Kurt ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNING; COLLOIDS; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLOORS; FOOD PRESERVATION; GELATION; HOT WORKING; METAL WORKING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REUSABILITY; SURVEYS; WATER;

18S RRNA; CONVEYER BELTS; CUTTING TABLES; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DIRECT CONTACTS; ENRICHMENT CULTURES; FAST SCREENING; FOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; HOT WATER; LIGHT MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS; MORPHO-SPECIES; PHYLOTYPES; PLASTIC PALLETS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

PROTOZOA;

RNA 18S; PROTOZOAL DNA;

DRAIN; ELECTROKINESIS; FLOOR; MEAT; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN; SANITATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AMOEBA; AMOEBOZOA; ARTICLE; BODO SALTANS; BUILDING; CHROMALVEOLATA; CILIATE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; EPISTYLIS; EXCAVATA; FLAGELLATE; FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY; FOOD PROCESSING; GENE INSERTION; GLAUCOMA SCINTILLANS; INCUBATION TIME; MEAT; MEAT INDUSTRY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOSPECIES; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPISTHOKONTA; PETALOMONAS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRODISCOPHRYA COLLINI; PROTOZOON; REFRIGERATOR; RHIZARIA; TEMPERATURE; VANNELLA; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EQUIPMENT; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE; GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RNA GENE;

ALVEOLATA; AMOEBOZOA; APICOMPLEXA; BODO SALTANS; CERCOZOA; CHROMALVEOLATA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; CILIOPHORA; EPISTYLIS; EXCAVATA; FUNGI/METAZOA GROUP; GLAUCOMA SCINTILLANS; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PETALOMONAS; PRODISCOPHRYA COLLINI; PROTOZOA; RHIZARIA; STRAMENOPILES; VANNELLA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RRNA; MEAT; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 52649119194     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00980-08     Document Type: Article

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