Safety of the surrogate microorganism Enterococcus faecium NRRL B-2354 for use in thermal process validation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1899-1909

  Kopit, Lauren M ^a   Kim, Eun Bae ^a,b   Siezen, Roland J ^c   Harris, Linda J ^a   Marco, Maria L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^c Microbial Bioinformatics   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC CONDITIONS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; CODING SEQUENCES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES;

BACILLI; FOOD PRODUCTS; STRAIN;

GENES;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; COMMENSAL; GENOME; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MODEL VALIDATION; PATHOGEN; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STERILIZATION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84897652693     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03859-13     Document Type: Article

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