Enteric pathogen-plant interactions: Molecular connections leading to colonization and growth and implications for food safety

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 123-135

  Martínez Vaz, Betsy M ^a   Fink, Ryan C ^b   Diez Gonzalez, Francisco ^b   Sadowsky, Michael J ^b  

^a HAMLINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Food safety; Foodborne pathogens; Fresh produce; Lettuce; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; FOOD SAFETY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INSECT VECTOR; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; VEGETABLE;

ANIMALS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; PLANT LEAVES; SEEDS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84904569344     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME13139     Document Type: Review

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