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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2005, p. 7661-7669, Vol. 71, No. 12
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.71.12.7661-7669.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Performance of Media for Recovering Stressed Cells of Enterobacter sakazakii as Determined Using Spiral Plating and Ecometric Techniques

J. B. Gurtler and L. R. Beuchat*

Center for Food Safety and Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia, 1109 Experiment Street, Griffin, Georgia 30223-1797

Received 5 May 2005/ Accepted 23 July 2005

A study was done to determine the performance of differential, selective media for supporting resuscitation and colony development by stressed cells of Enterobacter sakazakii. Cells of four strains of E. sakazakii isolated from powdered infant formula were exposed to five stress conditions: heat (55°C for 5 min), freezing (–20°C for 24 h, thawed, frozen again at –20°C for 2 h, thawed), acidic pH (3.54), alkaline pH (11.25), and desiccation in powdered infant formula (water activity, 0.25; 21°C for 31 days). Control and stressed cells were spiral plated on tryptic soy agar supplemented with 0.1% pyruvate (TSAP, a nonselective control medium); Leuschner, Baird, Donald, and Cox (LBDC) agar (a differential, nonselective medium); Oh and Kang agar (OK); fecal coliform agar (FCA); Druggan-Forsythe-Iversen (DFI) medium; violet red bile glucose (VRBG) agar; and Enterobacteriaceae enrichment (EE) agar. With the exception of desiccation-stressed cells, suspensions of stressed cells were also plated on these media and on R&F Enterobacter sakazakii chromogenic plating (RF) medium using the ecometric technique. The order of performance of media for recovering control and heat-, freeze-, acid-, and alkaline-stressed cells by spiral plating was TSAP > LBDC > FCA > OK, VRBG > DFI > EE; the general order for recovering desiccated cells was TSAP, LBDC, FCA, OK > DFI, VRBG, EE. Using the ecometric technique, the general order of growth indices of stressed cells was TSAP, LBDC > FCA > RF, VRBG, OK > DFI, EE. The results indicate that differential, selective media vary greatly in their abilities to support resuscitation and colony formation by stressed cells of E. sakazakii. The orders of performance of media for recovering stressed cells were similar using spiral plating and ecometric techniques, but results from spiral plating should be considered more conclusive.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Center for Food Safety, University of Georgia, 1109 Experiment St., Griffin, GA 30223-1797. Phone: (770) 412-4740. Fax: (770) 229-3216. E-mail: lbeuchat{at}uga.edu.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2005, p. 7661-7669, Vol. 71, No. 12
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.71.12.7661-7669.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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