This study investigated the effect of subinhibitory concentrations (SIC) of five plant-derived antimicrobials (PDAs), namely, trans cinnamaldehyde, eugenol, carvacrol, thymol, and β-resorcylic acid, on E. coli O157:H7 (EHEC) attachment and invasion of cultured bovine colonic (CO) and rectoanal junction (RAJ) epithelial cells. In addition, PDAs' effect on EHEC genes critical for colonization of ...

Vol. XLI (February 2004), 101–115 101 *Rajdeep Grewal is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University (e-mail: [email protected]). Raj Mehta is Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), and Frank R. Kardes is Professor of Marketing (e-mail: frank. [email protected]), College of Business Administration, University of Cincinnati. This resear...

4 Acknowledgements We are grateful to the Ministry of Panchayati Raj for sponsoring this paper. Due to various reasons, writing this paper took considerable amount of time and the Ministry bore with the delay. I am particularly grateful to A.