Listeria monocytogenes-carrying consortia in food industry. Composition, subtyping and numerical characterisation of mono-species biofilm dynamics on stainless steel

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 206, Issue , 2015, Pages 84-95

  Rodríguez López, Pedro ^a,b   Saá Ibusquiza, Paula ^a,c   Mosquera Fernández, Maruxa ^a   López Cabo, Marta ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Food safety; Listeria monocytogenes; Survey

Indexed keywords

APAI ENZYME; ASCI ENZYME; ENZYME; STAINLESS STEEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AVERAGE DIFFUSION DISTANCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARNOBACTERIUM; CELL COUNT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY INDUSTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FISH; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SAFETY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAXIMUM DIFFUSION DISTANCE; MEAT; MEAT INDUSTRY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEROTYPING; SERRATIA; SERRATIA FONTICOLA; BIOFILM; FOOD CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CARNOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; SERRATIA FONTICOLA;

BIOFILMS; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 84930009665     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: 18793460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2015.05.003     Document Type: Article

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