Interrelationships of food safety and plant pathology: The life cycle of human pathogens on plants

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 241-266

  Barak, Jeri D ^a   Schroeder, Brenda K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fitness; food borne illness; fresh produce; outbreaks; vector

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD POISONING; FOOD SAFETY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; PLANT PATHOLOGY; PLANTS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA;

EID: 84872243385     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-081211-172936     Document Type: Review

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