Role of growth temperature in freeze-thaw tolerance of Listeria spp.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 5315-5320

  Azizoglu, Reha O ^a   Osborne, J ^a   Wilson, S ^b   Kathariou, S ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT AUGUSTINE'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD ACCLIMATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOOD PROCESSING PLANTS; FOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; FREEZE-THAW; FREEZE-THAW CYCLES; FREEZING AND THAWING; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LOW TEMPERATURES; MONOCYTOGENES; NEGATIVE IMPACTS;

BACTERIOLOGY; CONCRETES; FOOD PROCESSING; FREEZING; GROWTH TEMPERATURE; STRAIN; THAWING;

BACTERIA;

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACCLIMATION; BACTERIUM; FOOD PROCESSING; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; GROWTH RATE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOOD PROCESSING; FREEZE THAWING; LIQUID CULTURE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGAR; ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HUMANS; LISTERIA; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PLANKTON; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIA WELSHIMERI;

EID: 68549126966     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00458-09     Document Type: Article

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