Heat resistance, spore germination, and enterotoxigenicity of Clostridium perfringens.

Abstract:

:Heat resistance at 95 C, heat activation at 75 C, and germination response were determined for spores of 10 serotype strains of Clostridium perfringens type A, including five heat-resistant and five heat-sensitive strains. The D95-values ranged from 17.6 to 63.0 and from 1.3 to 2.8 for the heat-resistant and the heat-sensitive strains, respectively. The heat-activation values, the ratios between the heated and unheated viable counts of spore suspensions, ranged from 0.0035 to 0.65 and from 6.5 to 60.0 for the heat-sensitive and the heat-resistant strains, respectively. Spores of these strains were divided into two distinct germination types on the basis of their germination response; spores of the heat-resistant strains germinated in KC1 medium after heat activation (K-type), and spores of the heat-sensitive strains germinated in a mixture of L-alanine, inosine, and CaCl2 in the presence of CO2 without heat activation (A-type). The strains were tested for enterotoxigenicity by a reversed passive latex-agglutination (RPLA) test. All the heat-resistant strains were RPLA-positive, whereas the heat-sensitive strains were all RPLA-negative. A total of 37 strains of the organism isolated from food-poisoning outbreaks were tested for spore germination and enterotoxin formation. All of the 20 heat-resistant strains showed K-type spore germination and, except for three strains, were RPLA-positive, whereas all of the 17 heat-sensitive strains showed A-type spore germination and, except for only one strain, were RPLA-negative.

journal_name

Microbiol Immunol

authors

Ando Y,Tsuzuki T,Sunagawa H,Oka S

doi

10.1111/j.1348-0421.1985.tb00830.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1985-01-01 00:00:00

pages

317-26

issue

4

eissn

0385-5600

issn

1348-0421

journal_volume

29

pub_type

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