Prevalence of C. perfringens in agricultural fields with different vegetation types

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-4

  Stefanis, Christos ^a   Alexopoulos, Athanasios ^a   Voidarou, Chrissa ^a   Vavias, Stavros ^a   Bezirtzoglou, Eugenia ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agricultural field; Clostridium perfringens; Food pathogens; Prevalence; Soil

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; FOOD INDUSTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

AGRICULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; FOOD INDUSTRY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84891343737     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12223-013-0257-3     Document Type: Article

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