TABLE 4.
Maximum growth rate (μmax, h–1) of B. cereus group strains and S. enterica strains at different temperatures.
| Bacterium | 4°C |
7°C |
12°C |
22°C |
|
| μmax (VC) | μmax (VC) | μmax (VC) | μmax (OD) | μmax (OD) | |
| B. weihenstephanensis 472 | 0.023 | 0.082 | 0.134 | 0.253 | 0.542 |
| B. mycoides 1053 | 0.018 | 0.070 | 0.086 | 0.302 | 0.414 |
| BTa ABTS-1857 | 0.025 | −0.016 | 0.083 | 0.114 | 0.803 |
| B. thuringiensis 464 | 0.007 | 0.021 | 0.130 | 0.210 | 0.868 |
| B. cereus 836 | 0.020 | −0.010 | 0.037 | NA | 0.910 |
| B. cereus 710 | −0.002 | 0.040 | 0.120 | 0.130 | 0.755 |
| S. Thompson 688 | 0.006 | 0.015 | 0.150 | 0.300 | 0.738 |
| S. Typhimurium 689 | 0.010 | 0.013 | 0.142 | 0.139 | 0.689 |
| S. monophasic Typhimurium 1006 | 0.004 | −0.002 | 0.148 | 0.158 | 0.648 |
| S. Enteritidis 1023 | 0.006 | 0.015 | 0.150 | 0.132 | 0.692 |
| S. Montevideo 1024 | 0.004 | 0.015 | 0.152 | 0.182 | 0.702 |
| S. Senftenberg 1025 | 0.002 | 0.015 | 0.150 | 0.185 | 0.834 |
μmax (VC), calculate based on viable count measurements; μmax (OD), calculate based on OD measurements.NA, no available data due to no changes of OD values of Bc 836 were detected.