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Commonly Used Disinfectants Fail To Eradicate Salmonella enterica Biofilms from Food Contact Surface Materials

Overview of attention for article published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2013
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Title
Commonly Used Disinfectants Fail To Eradicate Salmonella enterica Biofilms from Food Contact Surface Materials
Published in
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2013
DOI 10.1128/aem.03109-13
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Authors

M. Corcoran, D. Morris, N. De Lappe, J. O'Connor, P. Lalor, P. Dockery, M. Cormican

Abstract

Salmonellosis is the second most common cause of food-borne illness worldwide. Contamination of surfaces in food processing environments may result in biofilm formation with a risk of food contamination. Effective decontamination of biofilm-contaminated surfaces is challenging. Using the CDC biofilm reactor, the activities of sodium hypochlorite, sodium hydroxide, and benzalkonium chloride were examined against an early (48-h) and relatively mature (168-h) Salmonella biofilm. All 3 agents result in reduction in viable counts of Salmonella; however, only sodium hydroxide resulted in eradication of the early biofilm. None of the agents achieved eradication of mature biofilm, even at the 90-min contact time. Studies of activity of chemical disinfection against biofilm should include assessment of activity against mature biofilm. The difficulty of eradication of established Salmonella biofilm serves to emphasize the priority of preventing access of Salmonella to postcook areas of food production facilities.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Greece 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 248 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 45 18%
Student > Master 44 17%
Researcher 32 13%
Student > Bachelor 24 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 6%
Other 36 14%
Unknown 57 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 85 33%
Immunology and Microbiology 22 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 18 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 4%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 10 4%
Other 36 14%
Unknown 72 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 119. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 September 2023.
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#349,319
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Applied and Environmental Microbiology
#119
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#3,240
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Outputs of similar age from Applied and Environmental Microbiology
#4
of 133 outputs
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