Inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 on radish seeds by sequential treatments with chlorine dioxide, drying, and dry heat without loss of seed viability

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 6680-6686

  Bang, Jihyun ^a   Kim, Haeyoung ^a   Kim, Hoikyung ^b   Beuchat, Larry R ^c   Ryu, Jee Hoon ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Wonkwang University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTER-TREATMENT; CHLORINE DIOXIDES; DRY HEAT; DRY-HEATING; E.COLI O157:H7; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H7; GERMINATION RATES; HIGH WATER; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SEED VIABILITY; SEQUENTIAL TREATMENTS;

CHLORINE; CULTIVATION; DRYING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEAT TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

SEED;

CHLORINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORINE DIOXIDE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; OXIDE;

CHLORINE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; GERMINATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEED; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VIABILITY;

ARTICLE; DESICCATION; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GERMINATION; HEAT; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAPHANUS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DESICCATION; DISINFECTANTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GERMINATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; OXIDES; RAPHANUS; SEEDS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; RAPHANUS SATIVUS;

EID: 80052816894     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05715-11     Document Type: Article

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