Comparison of automated BAX PCR and standard culture methods for detection of Listeria monocytogenes in blue crabmeat (Callinectus sapidus) and blue crab processing plants

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1930-1933

  Pagadala, Sivaranjani ^a   Parveen, Salina ^a   Schwarz, Jurgen G ^a   Rippen, Thomas ^a   Luchansky, John B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE   (United States)

^b EASTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BRACHYURA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASON; SHELLFISH; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; SHELLFISH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 80655140479     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-11-213     Document Type: Article

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