Prevalence and genetic diversity of Listeria monocytogenes in vacuum-packaged ready-to-eat meat products at retail markets in latvia

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1283-1287

  Bērziņš, Aivars ^a,b   Terentjeva, Margarita ^b   Korkeala, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b LATVIA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Latvia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 67650094958     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-72.6.1283     Document Type: Article

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