Response of Listeria monocytogenes to disinfection stress at the single-cell and population levels as monitored by intracellular pH measurements and viable-cell counts

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4550-4556

  Kastbjerg, Vicky G ^a   Nielsen, Dennis S ^b   Arneborg, Nils ^b   Gram, Lone ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELLS; BACTERIAL POPULATION; CELL COUNT; CONCENTRATION OF; FLUORESCENCE RATIO IMAGING; FOOD PRODUCTION; IN-SITU ANALYSIS; INTRACELLULAR PH; INTRACELLULAR PH MEASUREMENT; LETHAL CONCENTRATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MONOCYTOGENES; POPULATION LEVELS; PROTECTIVE EFFECTS; SINGLE CELLS; SINGLE-CELL LEVEL; THROUGH-DRYING;

BACTERIOLOGY; CELL MEMBRANES; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; SODIUM ALLOYS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CYTOLOGY;

DISINFECTANT AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

BACTERIUM; DISINFECTION; FOOD PRODUCTION; MICROSCOPY; PERSISTENCE; PH; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUBPOPULATION; SURVIVAL; TOLERANCE; VIABILITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL COUNT; CELL PH; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DISINFECTION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD PROCESSING; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; SURVIVAL;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYTOPLASM; DISINFECTANTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 67649603927     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02625-08     Document Type: Article

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