Collaborative survey on the colonization of different types of cheese-processing facilities with Listeria monocytogenes

• Published in: Foodborne pathogens and disease Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 8
• Main Authors: Stessl, Beatrix, Fricker, Martina, Fox, Edward, Karpiskova, Renata, Demnerova, Katarina, Jordan, Kieran, Ehling-Schulz, Monika, Wagner, Martin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.2014
• Subjects: Cheese - microbiology; Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; Europe; Food Contamination - analysis; Food Handling - methods; Food Microbiology; Genotype; Listeria monocytogenes - classification; Listeria monocytogenes - isolation & purification; Multilocus Sequence Typing; Phenotype; Serotyping; Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; Europe

Cross-contamination via equipment and the food-processing environment has been implicated as the main cause of Listeria monocytogenes transmission. The aim of this study, therefore, was to determine the occurrence and potential persistence of L. monocytogenes in 19 European cheese-processing facilit...