Internalisation potential of Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium and Staphylococcus aureus in lettuce seedlings and mature plants

Journal of Water and Health

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 210-223

  Standing, Taryn Ann ^a   Du Plessis, Erika ^a   Duvenage, Stacey ^a   Korsten, Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Foodborne human pathogens; Internalisation

Indexed keywords

VERMICULITE; WATER;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; FOOD QUALITY; HYDROPONICS; LEAFY VEGETABLE; NUCLEIC ACID; PATHOGEN; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEEDLING; VERMICULITE;

ADULT PLANT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPHYTE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; INTERNALIZATION; LETTUCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LYSINIBACILLUS FUSIFORMIS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROFLORA; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PLATE COUNT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS RHODOCHROUS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEEDLING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; LETTUCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84880860194     PISSN: 14778920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wh.2013.164     Document Type: Article

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