A Risk Assessment Model for Enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus in Pasteurized Milk: A Potential Route to Source-Level Inference

Risk Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 249-269

  Barker, G C ^a   Gomez Tome N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; Biotracing; Pasteurized milk; Risk; S. Aureus

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASSESSMENT MODELS; BIOTRACING; CHAIN MANAGEMENT; COUPLED DYNAMICS; ENTEROTOXIGENIC; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; OVER POTENTIAL; PASTEURIZED MILK; POST PROCESS; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; S. AUREUS; SMALL SCALE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIA; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; HAZARDS; PHOSPHATASES; RISKS;

PASTEURIZATION;

BACTERIUM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD SAFETY; HYGIENE; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; PROCESSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; PATHOGENICITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MILK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84873100776     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2011.01667.x     Document Type: Article

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