Affiliation:
1. Sookmyung Women’s University, Risk Analysis Research Center, Seoul, 04310, Korea
2. Sookmyung Women’s University, Department of Food and Nutrition, Seoul, 04310, Korea
3. Korea Food Research Institute, Food Standard Research Center, Jeollabuk-do, 55365, Korea
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Campylobacter jejuni is a major gastroenteritis-causing foodborne pathogen. However, it is difficult to isolate when competing bacteria or cold-damaged cells are present.
Objective
Herein, a medium (Campylobacter selective agar, CSA) was developed and supplemented with catalase, L-serine, L-cysteine, and quercetin for the selective detection of C. jejuni in food.
Method
The C. jejuni-detection efficiency in media broth and chicken tenders was evaluated. The pathogen was enumerated on modified charcoal–cefoperazone–deoxycholate agar (mCCDA), CSA supplemented with 4 µM catalase (CSA-C4), 8 µM catalase (CSA-C8), 20 mM L-serine (CSA-S20) or 50 mM L-serine (CSA-S50), and mCCDA supplemented with 0.5 mM L-cysteine (mCCDA-LC0.5), 1 mM L-cysteine (mCCDA-LC1), 40 µM quercetin (mCCDA-Q40) or 320 µM quercetin (mCCDA-Q320). The detection efficiency was then evaluated by counting colonies on the selective agar media. Quantitative assessment was also performed using chicken and duck carcasses.
Results
The C. jejuni detection efficiencies were higher (P < 0.05) in the groups CSA-C4 or CSA-C8, and CSA-S20 or CSA-S50, than mCCDA, and the detection efficiencies were maintained even in the presence of Acinetobacter baumannii, a competing bacterium. In the quantitative test, CSA-C8 and CSA-S50 demonstrated higher C. jejuni-detection efficiencies than mCCDA (control).
Conclusions
Therefore, CSA-C8 and CSA-S50 improved the detection efficiency of C. jejuni in poultry products by promoting the recovery of cold-damaged cells.
Highlights
When using CSA-C8 or CSA-S50 developed in this study for detection of C. jejuni in food, detection efficiency was higher than mCCDA.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Pharmacology,Agronomy and Crop Science,Environmental Chemistry,Food Science,Analytical Chemistry
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