Prevalence of campylobacter spp. in raw retail poultry on sale in northern ireland

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1830-1835

  Moran, Lynn ^a   Scates, P A M ^a   Madden, Robert H ^a  

^a AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER LARI;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHICKEN; CLASSIFICATION; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IRELAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRODUCT SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHICKENS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMMERCE; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IRELAND; MEAT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

EID: 70349423608     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-72.9.1830     Document Type: Article

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