Recent Advances in the Study of the Genotypic Diversity and Ecology of Listeria monocytogenes

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 69-77

  Kimura, Bon ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

food pathogens; Listeria monocytogenes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898032272     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.21.69     Document Type: Article

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