Efficacy of the thin agar layer method for the recovery of stressed cronobacter spp. (Enterobacter sakazakii)

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1913-1918

  Osaili, Tareq M ^a   Al Nabulsi, Anas A ^a   Shaker, Reyad R ^a   Al Holy, Murad M ^b   Al Haddaq, Mohammed S ^a   Olaimat, Amin N ^a   Ayyash, Mutamed M ^a   Al Ta'ani, Mahmoud K ^a   Forsythe, Stephen J ^c  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER SAKAZAKII;

EID: 78649385612     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-73.10.1913     Document Type: Article

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