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Pathogenicity of Foodborne, Environmental and Clinical Isolates of Listeria Monocytogenes in Mice
Author(s) -
CONNER DONALD E.,
SCOTT VIRGINIA N.,
SUMNER SUSAN S.,
BERNARD DANE T.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of food science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1750-3841
pISSN - 0022-1147
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1989.tb05158.x
Subject(s) - listeria monocytogenes , serotype , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , pathogenicity , listeria , virology , bacteria , genetics
Foodborne, environmental and clinical isolates of Listeria monocytogenes and other Listeria species were screened for pathogenicity in immunocompromised mice. Of 218 isolates of L. monocytogenes , 203 were pathogenic and 15 were nonpathogenic. All non‐monocytogenes species were nonpathogenic. Pathogenic isolates were hemolytic for sheep blood. In contrast, many nonpathogenic isolates were weakly hemolytic, but were CAMP positive. Lethal doses (LD 50 ) of pathogenic isolates were 5‐480 cells for immunocompromised mice and 7.2 × 10 5 to 8.4 × 10 7 for nonimmunocompromised mice; whereas LD 50 s for nonpathogenic isolates were > 10 8 cells in both immunocompromised and nonimmunocompromised mice. Selected test isolates of L. monocytogenes were serotyped; the most common serotypes were 1/2b, 1/2a, 3a and 4b. The initial source and serotype of the isolate appeared not to be related to pathogenicity in immunocompromised mice. However, hemolytic activity was related to pathogenicity.