Principles, applications, and limitations of automated ribotyping as a rapid method in food safety

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1047-1055

  Pavlic, Marin ^a   Griffiths, Mansel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED RIBOTYPING; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLITIS; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; FOOD SAFETY; FOODBORNE DISEASE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HEATING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; RIBOTYPING; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLOSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AUTOMATION, LABORATORY; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; RIBOTYPING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CAMPYLOBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 70449353875     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2009.0264     Document Type: Review

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