Landscape and meteorological factors affecting prevalence of three food-borne pathogens in fruit and vegetable farms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 588-600

  Strawn, Laura K ^a   Fortes, Esther D ^a,d   Bihn, Elizabeth A ^b   Nightingale, Kendra K ^c   Gröhn, Yrjö T ^a   Worobo, Randy W ^b   Wiedmann, Martin ^a   Bergholz, Peter W ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESERVOIRS; FOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; FRESH PRODUCE; FRUIT AND VEGETABLES; IN-FIELD; LAND COVER; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; MONOCYTOGENES; NEW YORK STATE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROVAR; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WATER SAMPLES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LISTERIA; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SALMONELLA; URBAN GROWTH;

PATHOGENS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALLELE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FARMING SYSTEM; GIS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE; METEOROLOGY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOXIN; VEGETABLE;

ARTICLE; FRUIT; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE;

FRUIT; GEOGRAPHY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; NEW YORK; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; VEGETABLES;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 84871898037     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02491-12     Document Type: Article

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