Presence and persistence of salmonella enterica serotype typhimurium in the phyllosphere and rhizosphere of spray-irrigated parsley

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4030-4036

  Kisluk, Guy ^a   Yaron, Sima ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COUNT; CONTAMINATED WATER; CONTROL STRATEGIES; FOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; FRESH FOOD; PHYLLOSPHERES; POLLUTED WATER; Q-RT-PCR; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; READY-TO-EAT; S. TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPES; SPRAY IRRIGATION;

CROPS; IRRIGATION; PATHOGENS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOILS; WATER POLLUTION;

SALMONELLA;

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; FUNGAL DISEASE; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; IRRIGATION; PATHOGENICITY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION DECLINE; RHIZOSPHERE; SPRAY; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PETROSELINUM; PLANT ROOT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TIME; WATER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; PETROSELINUM; PLANT ROOTS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PETROSELINUM CRISPUM; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 84864106438     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00087-12     Document Type: Article

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