Influence of indigenous eukaryotic microbial communities on the reduction of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in compost slurry

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 313, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 148-154

  Puri, Amrita ^a   Dudley, Edward G ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compost; Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli; Escherichia coli O157:H7; Foodborne pathogen; Protist

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CRYSTAL VIOLET; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; STREPTOMYCIN;

AGRICULTURE; AUTOCLAVE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMPOST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA EXTRACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; LETTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTISTAN COMMUNITY; REDUCTION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANTIBIOSIS; BIODIVERSITY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; EUKARYOTA; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 78649515036     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02141.x     Document Type: Letter

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