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CONCURRENT DETECTION OF ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H7 AND SALMONELLA FROM A SINGLE ENRICHMENT IN 24 H
Author(s) -
EVRENDILEK GULSUN AKDEMIR,
RICHTER EDWARD R.,
CHISM GRADY W.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of food safety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.427
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1745-4565
pISSN - 0149-6085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-4565.2001.tb00308.x
Subject(s) - salmonella , escherichia coli , incubation , immunomagnetic separation , enterobacteriaceae , inoculation , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , food science , bacteria , food microbiology , chemistry , chromatography , biochemistry , genetics , immunology , gene
The objective of this study was to determine if a single assay protocol could result in the concurrent detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella from a single sample grown in a single enrichment in 24 h. Twenty‐five and 375 g of ground beef nonfat dry milk, and dry pet food samples were seeded with low (10 cfu/sample) and high (100 cfu/sample) levels ofE. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella cultures and incubated at 35 and 41C for 18 h for nonselective preenrichment. Incubated samples were analyzed by immunomagnetic separation (IMS) following a 6 h incubation for selective enrichment at 37C using M‐broth and enzyme linked immumosorbent assay (ELISA). Depending on the food samples and the inoculation level, the minimum concurrent detection level of E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella was <1 cfu/g in the samples at the competitor flora level of 10 5 cfu/g or less in ground beef samples, but in other cases of higher competitor loads and low target inoculations E. coli O157:H7 could not be detected in the presence of the Salmonella.