listerias

Noun

listeria (plural listeria)

1. Any rod-shaped, gram-positive bacterium, of the genus Listeria, especially those responsible for the bacterial infection listeriosis.
   • One of the main reasons fridge temperatures are recommend to be set at 5ºC is because of listeria. Listeria is a food poisoning bacterium that is psychrotrophic – in other words it likes cold temperatures. From the growth models, we know that listeria grows nearly twice as fast at 8°C as it does at...2018 January 15, Kaarin Goodburn, “How chilled is your fridge?”, in Food Standards Agency

   Synonyms:

   listerella