Impact of changes in sugar exudate created by biological damage to tomato plants on the persistence of Escherichia coli O157:H7

Journal of Food Science

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Aruscavage, Daniel ^a,b,d   Phelan, P Larry ^c   Lee, Ken ^b   LeJeune, Jeffrey T ^a,b  

^a Food Animal Health Research Program   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dept of Entomology ^*  (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT POTSDAM   (United States)

Author keywords

E. coli O157:H7; Food safety; Phytopathogens; Sugars; Tomatoes

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; HEXOSE; INOSITOL; SUCROSE; PLANT EXUDATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD POISONING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT EXUDATE; PLANT LEAF; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOMATO; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

CARBOHYDRATES; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HEXOSES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INOSITOL; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT EXUDATES; PLANT LEAVES; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SUCROSE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 77952900009     PISSN: 00221147     EISSN: 17503841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2010.01593.x     Document Type: Article

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