Biofilm models for the food industry: Hot spots for plasmid transfer?

Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 332-338

  Meervenne, Eva Van ^a,b   Weirdt, Rosemarie De ^a   Coillie, Els Van ^b   Devlieghere, Frank ^a   Herman, Lieve ^b   Boon, Nico ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

antibiotic resistance; conjugation; dual species biofilms

Indexed keywords

SILICONE; STAINLESS STEEL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BIOFILM REACTOR; BIOMASS; DENSITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW RATE; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD POISONING; INOCULATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOFILMS; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD INDUSTRY; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 84906089595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2049632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2049-632X.12134     Document Type: Article

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