Phages in the global fruit and vegetable industry

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 537-556

  Zaczek, M ^a   Weber Dabrowska, B ^a   Gorski A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Antimicrobials; Bacteriophages; Biocontrol; Food safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BACTERIOPHAGES; CULTIVATION; DISEASES; FOOD SAFETY; IRRADIATION; VEGETABLES;

ANTIMICROBIAL; BACTERIAL PATHOGENS; DAIRY INDUSTRY; FOOD INDUSTRIES; FOOD-SAFETY; FRESH-CUT; FRUIT AND VEGETABLES; FRUIT INDUSTRY; MEAT INDUSTRY; VEGETABLE INDUSTRY;

FRUITS;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP YIELD; CULTIVATION; DISEASE TREATMENT; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SAFETY; FRUIT; PATHOGEN; VEGETABLE;

BACTERIAL BLOTCH DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL WILT; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; CROP; ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FIRE BLIGHT; FOOD INDUSTRY; FRUIT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT SEED; POTATO; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; STREPTOMYCES SCABIEI; VEGETABLE; FOOD CONTROL; HISTORY; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FRUIT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; PLANT DISEASES; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84926174554     PISSN: 13645072     EISSN: 13652672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jam.12700     Document Type: Review

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