Yersinia enterocolitica: Survival of a Pathogenic Strain on Milk Containers
- 1 November 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Food Protection
- Vol. 48 (11) , 947-948
- https://doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x-48.11.947
Abstract
A strain of Yersinia enterocolitica isolated from a patient in a milk-associated yersiniosis outbreak in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas in the summer of 1982 was used to contaminate the exterior of refrigerated milk containers. The bacteria survived on the containers for as long as 21 d, as shown by recovery on MacConkey agar plates or in veal infusion broth. Y. enterocolitica was not detected in milk poured from the contaminated containers.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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