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Appl Environ Microbiol, February 1998, p. 733-741, Vol. 64, No. 2
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
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Extended Survival and Persistence of Campylobacter spp. in Water and Aquatic Biofilms and Their Detection by Immunofluorescent-Antibody and -rRNA Staining

Clive M. Buswell,1,* Yvonne M. Herlihy,1,dagger Lorna M. Lawrence,2,3 James T. M. McGuiggan,2 Philip D. Marsh,1 C. William Keevil,1 and Steve A. Leach1

Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 0JG, United Kingdom,1 and Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland,2 and The Queen's University of Belfast,3 Belfast, BT9 5PX, Northern Ireland

Received 1 August 1997/Accepted 5 November 1997

In water microcosm experiments, the survival times of Campylobacter isolates differed by up to twofold, as determined by culturing; this difference increased to fourfold when particular combinations of temperature and oxygenation were used. The mean survival times were much longer at 4 and 10°C (202 and 176 h, respectively) than at 22 and 37°C (43 and 22 h, respectively). The influence of anaerobiosis on survival time was less dramatic and differed considerably between isolates. In a two-stage water distribution model preparation containing a biofilm consisting of standardized autochthonous water microflora, Campylobacter isolates continued to differ in survival time. However, the survival times of cultures were considerably longer in the presence of the autochthonous water microflora (strains CH1 and 9752 survived 700 and 360 h, respectively, at 4°C) than in the sterile microcosms (strains CH1 and 9752 survived 230 and 157 h, respectively). Although increased temperature and oxygenation were generally detrimental to culturability, the interaction of these two factors influenced the two strains examined differently. When the organisms were grown aerobically at 30°C, the survival of the two strains was reversed; aerobiosis decreased the survival time of strain CH1 by 30%, but unexpectedly improved the persistence time of strain 9752 by more than threefold. Persistence times within biofilms were much longer when they were determined by detection methods not involving culturing. Immunofluorescent-antibody staining demonstrated that the pathogen persisted up to the termination of the experiments after 28 and 42 days of incubation at 30 and 4°C, respectively. The specificity of detection within intact biofilms was reduced because of high background fluorescence. However, preliminary studies with a Campylobacter-specific rRNA probe revealed the same extended persistence of the pathogen within the biofilms.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 0JG, United Kingdom. Phone: 44 1980 612222 or 44 1980 612411. Fax: 44 1980 612731. E-mail: clive.buswell{at}camr.org.uk.

dagger Present address: Department of Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.




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