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SUBMITTER: Jayaraman D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3925098 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jayaraman Dhileepkumar D Valdés-López Oswaldo O Kaspar Charles W CW Ané Jean-Michel JM
PloS one 20140214 2
Disease outbreaks due to the consumption of legume seedlings contaminated with human enteric bacterial pathogens like Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica are reported every year. Besides contaminations occurring during food processing, pathogens present on the surface or interior of plant tissues are also responsible for such outbreaks. In the present study, surface and internal colonization of Medicago truncatula, a close relative of alfalfa, by Salmonella enterica and Escherichia ...[more]