Eva Bidlas

TL;DR: The taxonomic relationship of E. sakazakii was further investigated in this article, where the species was defined in 1980, 15 biogroups were described and it was suggested that these could represent multiple species.

TL;DR: KCl is a direct 1:1 molar replacement for the antimicrobial effect of common salt, if this is a general finding then, where salt is used to help preserve a product, partial or complete replacement by KCl is possible.

TL;DR: The model suggests that changes in minimum inhibitory concentration or in the growth-no growth boundary with respect to inoculum size are due to using a smaller or larger inoculum and is not due to other, suggested, phenomena, which implies that a simple 1 to 2-day experiment measuring the TTD of various initial inocula can be used as an adjunct to currently available models.

TL;DR: This study supports the validity of the Gamma concept -- that individual environmental effects act independently and should, in turn, facilitate attempts to model the growth of other microorganisms under a variety of conditions.

TL;DR: The results of this study support the Gamma hypothesis suggesting that there are no synergistic interactions between inhibitory factors and that growth can be predicted from a library of known effects and can be used to design good quality shelf-life challenge tests by reducing the number of studies required.