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. 1972 Oct;24(4):535–539. doi: 10.1128/am.24.4.535-539.1972

Radiometric Detection of Some Food-Borne Bacteria

Joseph J Previte 1,2
PMCID: PMC380608  PMID: 4564040

Abstract

Studies on detection of bacteria by radiometric techniques have been concerned primarily with aerobic species in clinical specimens. The data presented here are related to detection of aerobic and anaerobic species that are of significance in foods, by measurement of 14CO2 evolved from the metabolism of 14C-glucose. Salmonella typhimurium and Staphylococcus aureus were inoculated into tryptic soy broth containing 0.0139 μCi of 14C glucose/ml of medium. Detection times ranged from 10 to 3 hr for inocula of 100 to 104 cells/ml of broth. Heat-shocked spores of Clostridium sporogenes or C. botulinum were incubated in tryptic soy broth supplemented with Thiotone and NaHCO3. The medium was rendered anaerobic with N2. Spores were detected when 0.0833 μCi of labeled glucose was available/ml of medium but not when 0.0139 μCi of glucose was present/ml. The spores required 3 to 4 hr longer for detection than did comparable numbers of aerobic vegetative cells. The results demonstrate the importance of availability of sufficient label in the media and the potential of the application of this technique for sterility testing of foods.

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