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Marker (index and indicator) organisms in food and drinking water. Semantics, ecology, taxonomy and enumeration

  • Netherlands Society for Microbiology Symposium on Food Microbiology held at the Hague on 15–19 September 1981 Under the Auspices of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies
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Mossel, D.A.A. Marker (index and indicator) organisms in food and drinking water. Semantics, ecology, taxonomy and enumeration. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 48, 609–611 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00399544

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