Determining the potential link between irrigation water quality and the microbiological quality of onions by phenotypic and genotypic characterization of Escherichia coli isolates

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 643-651

  Du Plessis, Erika M ^a   Duvenage, Francois ^a   Korsten, Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM CEPA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; SALMONELLA;

BACTERIAL DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FRUIT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; ONION; PHENOTYPE; RIVER; SALMONELLA; SOUTH AFRICA; VEGETABLE; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FRUIT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; ONIONS; PHENOTYPE; RIVERS; SALMONELLA; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; VEGETABLES; VIRULENCE FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84926390640     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: 19449097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-14-486     Document Type: Article

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