Comparison of methods for the microbiological identification and profiling of Cronobacter species from ingredients used in the preparation of infant formula

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-64

  Cetinkaya, Esin ^a   Joseph, Susan ^b   Ayhan, Kamuran ^a   Forsythe, Stephen J ^b  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S rDNA sequencing; Cronobacter; Enterobacter sakazakii; FusA; MLST; PFGE

Indexed keywords

CHAMOMILE; DNA 16S;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BROCCOLI; CRONOBACTER MALONATICUS; CRONOBACTER SAKAZAKII; FENNEL; FLOUR; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEAT; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MILK; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; OAT; PARSLEY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RICE; RYE; SPINACH; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; CRONOBACTER; DNA, BACTERIAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR G; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

ENTEROBACTER SAKAZAKII;

EID: 84869778536     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: 10961194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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