COLD-TOLERANT FERMENTATIVE GRAM-NEGATIVE ORGANISMS FROM MEAT AND OTHER SOURCES
- 1 April 1959
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Bacteriology
- Vol. 22 (1), 57-63
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.1959.tb04610.x
Abstract
SUMMARY: From various chilled meats, twenty-eight strains of coli-aerogenes bacteria and one Aeromonas were isolated which grew well at +1±5° and some at −1±5°. The optimum growth temperature for most of these strains was nearer 37° than 30°. Nine strains (including the Aeromonas) fermented lactose rapidly, the remainder slowly or not at all. All the strains which fermented lactose rapidly with the production of gas gave positive presumptive coli-aerogenes tests in MacConkey's broth at 30°, but only five were positive at 37°; none was positive at 44°. Because such organisms can attain populations of millions/cm2, they could confuse the interpretation of presumptive coli-aerogenes tests made on chilled meat.Keywords
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