Prevalence and diversity of enterotoxigenic escherichia coli strains in fresh produce

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 820-823

  Feng, Peter C H ^a   Reddy, Shanker P ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRUIT; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS; VEGETABLE;

BIODIVERSITY; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRUIT; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84899581375     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-13-412     Document Type: Article

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