Growth of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Listeria monocytogenes with prior resistance to intense pulsed light and lactic acid |
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| Authors: | Rajkovic Andreja Smigic Nada Devlieghere Frank |
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| Affiliation: | a Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Preservation, Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Food2Know, Coupure links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
b Department of Food Safety and Quality Management, Faculty of Agriculture, Belgrade University, Nemanjina 6, 11080 Zemun-Belgrade, Serbia |
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| Abstract: | Previous study showed that repetitive mild decontamination treatments with intense light pulses (ILP) and lactic acid (LA) can induce increased resistance in surviving pathogenic cells. Research has evaluated the potential of increased resistance to enhance the persistence of resistant variants of Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli O157:H7 under suboptimal growth conditions. Growth of resistant variants and parental strains was determined by optical density (OD) measurements in nutrient broths with different pH values and NaCl concentration, at low temperature. The real lag phase was calculated, and results indicated that intense light pulses (ILP) resistant variants needed longer time to initiate growth compared to their parental strains, for both L. monocytogenes and E. coli O157:H7 when incubated at 7 °C and 10 °C, respectively. These selected variants were of the similar resistance towards heat and low pH (no cross-tolerance). Nevertheless, lactic acid (LA) resistant variant of L. monocytogenes was cross-protected when exposed to low pH, but not when treated with heat. |
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| Keywords: | Listeria monocytogenes Escherichia coli O157:H7 Inactivation Resistance Persistence Intense pulsed light Lactic acid Heat pH |
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