Stress- and growth rate-related differences between plate count and real-time PCR data during growth of Listeria monocytogenes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2132-2138

  Reichert Schwillinsky, Franziska ^a   Pin, Carmen ^b   Dzieciol, Monika ^a   Wagner, Martin ^a   Hein, Ingeborg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID STRESS; BACTERIAL CELLS; CELL COUNTS; EXTRACELLULAR; GOOD CORRELATIONS; GROWTH CONDITIONS; GROWTH CURVES; GROWTH-PHASE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MONOCYTOGENES; OPTICAL DENSITIES; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; OSMOTIC STRESS; REAL-TIME PCR; STATIONARY PHASE; STRESS CONDITIONS; VIABLE BUT NON-CULTURABLE; VIABLE COUNTS;

BACTERIOLOGY; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; COSMIC RAYS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); DENSITY MEASUREMENT (OPTICAL); NUCLEIC ACIDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CELL GROWTH;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM; DNA; GROWTH CURVE; PH; POLLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; OSMOTIC STRESS; PLATE COUNT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACIDS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 63849246693     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01796-08     Document Type: Article

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