Ready-to-eat street-vended food as a potential vehicle of bacterial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance: An exploratory study in Porto region, Portugal

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 206, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-6

  Campos, Joana ^a   Gil, Joana ^a   Mourão, Joana ^a   Peixe, Luísa ^a   Antunes, Patrícia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Escherichia coli; Food handlers; Listeria monocytogenes; Mobile food trailers; Street foods

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; COAGULASE POSITIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FOOD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA; STREET FOOD; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD HANDLING; GENETICS; HAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; STANDARDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; SALMONELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; HAND; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; SEROTYPING;

EID: 84928159046     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: 18793460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2015.04.016     Document Type: Article

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