Agricultural Practices Influence Salmonella Contamination and Survival in Pre-harvest Tomato Production

Agricultural Practices Influence Salmonella Contamination and Survival in Pre-harvest Tomato Production

Between 2000 and 2010 the Eastern Shore of Virginia was implicated in four Salmonella outbreaks associated with tomato. Therefore, a multi-year study (2012–2015) was performed to investigate presumptive factors associated with the contamination of Salmonella within tomato fields at Virginia Tech’s E...

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Main Authors: Ganyu Gu, Laura K. Strawn, David O. Oryang, Jie Zheng, Elizabeth A. Reed, Andrea R. Ottesen, Rebecca L. Bell, Yuhuan Chen, Steven Duret, David T. Ingram, Mark S. Reiter, Rachel Pfuntner, Eric W. Brown, Steven L. Rideout
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Salmonella
tomato fields
irrigation
poultry litter
agricultural practices
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02451/full

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