Responses of Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, and Staphylococcus aureus to simulated food processing treatments, determined using fluorescence-activated cell sorting and plate counting

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4657-4668

  Kennedy, Deirdre ^a   Cronin, Ultan P ^a,b   Wilkinson, Martin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR PLATES; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; BACTERIAL POPULATION; BACTERIAL SPECIES; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SUSPENSION; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; FOOD CONTROL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE INTEGRITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROBIAL SPECIES; PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISMS; RECOVERY RATE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ALGAE; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANES; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SUPPLY; MEMBRANES; POLYSACCHARIDES;

PROCESSED FOODS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGAR; BACTERIUM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; FOOD PROCESSING; GROWTH RATE; MEMBRANE; PERMEABILITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD HANDLING; HEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL MEMBRANE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HOT TEMPERATURE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79960099473     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00323-11     Document Type: Article

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