Genetic determinants of heat resistance in Escherichia coli

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue SEP, 2015, Pages

  Mercer, Ryan G ^a   Zheng, Jinshui ^b   Garcia Hernandez, Rigoberto ^a   Ruan, Lifang ^b   Gänzle, Michael G ^a   McMullen, Lynn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beef; Cronobacter; EHEC; Heat resistance; Klebsiella; O157; STEC; VTEC

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HEAT TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 84946732942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00932     Document Type: Article

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