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. 1983 Mar;45(3):796–799. doi: 10.1128/aem.45.3.796-799.1983

Relative Incidence of Alteromonas putrefaciens and Pseudomonas putrefaciens in Ground Beef †

Louise L Parker 1, R E Levin 1
PMCID: PMC242373  PMID: 6847186

Abstract

Of 65 H2S-producing isolates from seven samples of ground beef, 64 were found to be Alteromonas putrefaciens. Isolates of Pseudomonas putrefaciens were not encountered. The mean guanine-plus-cytosine content of DNAs from 10 of the representative isolates, obtained from thermal denaturation determinations, was 46.5 ± 1.0 mol%, which is consistent with the designation A. putrefaciens.

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