Alternative microbial methods: An overview and selection criteria

Food Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 710-730

  Jasson, Vicky ^a   Jacxsens, Liesbeth ^a   Luning, Pieternel ^b   Rajkovic, Andreja ^a   Uyttendaele, Mieke ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Campylobacter spp.; Coagulase positive Staphylococcus; Detection; Enterobacteriaceae; Enumeration; Escherichia coli; Escherichia coli O157; Listeria monoctogenes; Salmonella spp.; Total viable count

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; ANALYSIS; BACTERIA; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CAMPYLOBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; SALMONELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 77954087911     PISSN: 07400020     EISSN: 10959998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2010.04.008     Document Type: Review

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