Survival of enteric pathogens during butterhead lettuce growth: Crop stage, leaf age, and irrigation

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 485-491

  Van Der Linden, Inge ^a   Cottyn, Bart ^a   Uyttendaele, Mieke ^b   Vlaemynck, Geertrui ^a   Heyndrickx, Marc ^a,b   Maes, Martine ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT PLANT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BELGIUM; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GREENHOUSE; GROWTH CHAMBER; HARVEST; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMIDITY; INOCULATION; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LEAF AGE; LETTUCE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; PLATING MEDIUM; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPE;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; BELGIUM; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; LETTUCE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PLANT LEAVES; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; WATER; WEATHER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTUCA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 84879395642     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: 15567125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2012.1386     Document Type: Article

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