Contamination of tomatoes with coliforms and Escherichia coli on farms and in markets of Northwest Nigeria

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 57-64

  Shenge, Kenneth C ^a,b   Whong, Clement M Z ^b   Yakubu, Lydia L ^b   Omolehin, Raphael A ^b   Erbaugh, J Mark ^a   Miller, Sally A ^a   LeJeune, Jeffrey T ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

MANURE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD SAFETY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MANURE; MICROBIOLOGY; NIGERIA; TOMATO;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; COMMERCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; HAND DISINFECTION; HUMANS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MANURE; NIGERIA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84920922000     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-14-265     Document Type: Article

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