Development and application of a new method for specific and sensitive enumeration of spores of nonproteolytic clostridium botulinum types B, E, and F in foods and food materials

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 6607-6614

  Peck, Michael W ^a   Plowman, June ^a   Aldus, Clare F ^a   Wyatt, Gary M ^a   Izurieta, Walter Penaloza ^b   Stringer, Sandra C ^a   Barker, Gary C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM; BOTULINUM NEUROTOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CONTROL SAMPLES; DETECTION LIMITS; FOOD MATERIALS; FOOD SAFETY; KEY FEATURE; LOW DETECTION LIMIT; MULTIPLEX PCR; QUANTITATIVE MICROBIOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENTS; SELECTIVE ENRICHMENT; TEST SAMPLES;

CLOSTRIDIUM; HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BACTERIUM; FOOD SAFETY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPORE; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL SPORE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; EVALUATION; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD SAFETY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIAL LOAD; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPORES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; PECTINIDAE;

EID: 78049245361     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01007-10     Document Type: Article

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