Longitudinal study on the sources of Listeria monocytogenes contamination in cold-smoked salmon and its processing environment in Italy

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 79-84

  Di Ciccio, Pierluigi ^a   Meloni, Domenico ^b   Festino, Anna Rita ^c   Conter, Mauro ^a   Zanardi, Emanuela ^a   Ghidini, Sergio ^a   Vergara, Alberto ^c   Mazzette, Rina ^b   Ianieri, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c Department of Food Science   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contamination; Listeria monocytogenes; PFGE; Smoked salmon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA RESTRICTION; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD PROCESSING; GENOTYPE; ITALY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMON; SEROTYPE; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; ITALY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; SALMON; SEAFOOD; SEROTYPING; SMOKE; VIRULENCE;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 84864393613     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: 18793460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2012.06.016     Document Type: Article

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