Isolation of highly heat-resistant Listeria monocytogenes variants by use of a kinetic modeling-based sampling scheme

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2617-2624

  Van Boeijen, Ineke K H ^a,b   Francke, Christof ^a,c   Moezelaar, Roy ^a,b   Abee, Tjakko ^a,b   Zwietering, Marcel H ^b  

^a TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT INACTIVATION; HEAT INACTIVATION KINETICS; HIGH RESISTANCE; KINETIC MODELING; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MONOCYTOGENES; SAMPLING SCHEMES; UPSTREAM REGION; WILD TYPES;

DISEASES; GENES; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LISTERIA;

HEAT RESISTANCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CTSR PROTEIN, BACTERIA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NONLINEARITY; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; HEAT; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; KINETICS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MILK; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 79955629389     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02617-10     Document Type: Article

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