Liha töötlemine
bacteria Corynebacterium, Streptococcus,
and other species of Bacillus and Clostridium.
Plesiomonas shigelloides
Miscellaneous organisms include Brucella,
Plesiomonas shigelloides has been a suspect Mycobacterium (T, B), Coxiella burnetii
in food-borne disease cases. The organism is (Q-fever), Leptospirosis, Erysipelas, and
Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, cata- Tularemia.
lase negative, and fermentative. It is oxidase
positive, which can be used to differentiate
Food-Borne Viruses
it from other bacteria in the family
Enterobacteriaceae, since the latter is oxi- Food-borne viruses are much less studied by
dase-negative. The organism also resembles food microbiologists than are bacteria and