Role of airborne soil particulate in transfer of Salmonella spp. to tomato blossoms and consequential fruit contamination
Contaminated tomatoes have become a commonly implicated vehicle of Salmonella outbreaks. Exposure of tomatoes to pathogen could occur in the field. Blossom inoculation with Salmonella can result in contaminated fruit but natural routes of blossom contamination are not well known. Salmonellae have be...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40421 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12142011-163804/ |