The rise in foodborne-related outbreaks of non O157 shiga-toxin producing E. coli (STECs) emphasizes the importance of developing improved methods to rapidly detect and characterize STECs. The major s
Listeria monocytogenes is a psychrotrophic food-borne pathogen mostly associated with consumption of ready-to eat foods. This strain demonstrated specific overgrowth capabilities in presence of exogen
Clostridium botulinum F strain Langeland. Clostridium botulinum F strain Langeland was identified in 1958 from home-prepared liver paste involved in an outbreak of foodborne botulism on the island of
