Article
Inactivation of Escherichia coli by citral.
Journal of applied microbiology - 1 Jun 2010
Somolinos M, García D, Condón S, Mackey B, Pagán R
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AIMS: The aim was to evaluate (i) the resistance of Escherichia coli BJ4 to citral in a buffer system as a function of citral concentration, treatment medium pH, storage time and initial inoculum size, (ii) the role of the sigma factor RpoS on citral resistance of E. coli, (iii) the role of the cell envelope damage in the mechanism of microbial inactivation by citral and (iiii) possible synergistic effects of...
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