Potential applications of probiotic, bacteriocin- producing enterococci and their bacteriocins

Lactic Acid Bacteria: Microbiological and Functional Aspects, Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 39-61

  Lauková, Andrea ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Slovakia)

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ADDITIVES; ADHESIVES; AMINES; ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOHAZARDS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH HAZARDS; HEALTH RISKS; HEAT RESISTANCE; LACTIC ACID; MEATS; PROBIOTICS; SAFETY TESTING; STRAIN; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIOCIN PRODUCTION; DRY FERMENTED SAUSAGE; EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITIES; FERMENTED DAIRY PRODUCTS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITORS;

FOOD MICROBIOLOGY;

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