{"title":"Alumnus Fellow Application","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00374.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00374.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology","volume":"7 2","pages":"ix-x"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00374.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137503755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DANIEL Y.C. FUNG, DONGHYUN KANG, THANGPONG PAILIN, KAREN A. SCHMIDT
{"title":"NOVEL METHOD FOR STUDY OF THE EXTRACELLULAR CELL-BOUND PROTEINASE FROM LACTIC ACID BACTERIA†","authors":"DANIEL Y.C. FUNG, DONGHYUN KANG, THANGPONG PAILIN, KAREN A. SCHMIDT","doi":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00380.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00380.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract </b> <i>Skim milk agar was developed to investigate extracellular cell-bound proteinase in yogurt cultures. The agar was inoculated with yogurt starter cultures</i> Streptococcus thermophilus <i>and</i> Lactobacillus bulgaricus, <i>incubated anaerobically at 37C for 48 h, and then stored at 4C for 3 days. Both</i> S. thermophilus <i>and</i> L. bulgaricus <i>colonies, which could produce extracellular proteinase, developed clear zones in skim milk agar. The clear zone produced by</i> L. bulgaricus <i>was bigger (4.551-4.620 mm) than that produced by</i> S. thermophilus <i>(2.350 mm). This result suggested that</i> L. bulgaricus <i>produced more extracellular cell-bound proteinase. The clear zone on skim milk agar can be used to easily determine the presence of extracellular cell bound proteinase. and furthermore, the size of clear zone might indicate proteolytic activity.</i></p>","PeriodicalId":50067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology","volume":"7 2","pages":"113-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00380.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63411597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E.F. DALEY, D. BOOTSVELD, D.W. WARBURTON, J.M. FARBER
{"title":"A COMPARISON OF THE HEALTH PROTECTION BRANCH AND THE ENZYME LINKED FLUORESCENT ASSAY METHODS FOR THE ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF LISTERIA SPP. AND LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES FROM FOODS","authors":"E.F. DALEY, D. BOOTSVELD, D.W. WARBURTON, J.M. FARBER","doi":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00388.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00388.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract </b> <i>The conventional Health Protection Branch method (MFHPB-30) for the detection of</i> Listeria monocytogenes <i>is labor intensive and may require seven days to complete, depending on the initial levels of the organism in the food sample. Thus, there is a definite need for a rapid isolation and detection method. There are two commercially available versions of the enzyme linked fluorescent assay (ELFA) method for identifying Listeria from foods. One identifies Listeria to the genus level and the other to the species</i> (L. monocytogenes) <i>level, with both giving results within 50 h. In the present study, the two ELFA methods were compared to the HPB method to determine their efficiency.</i></p><p>For the genus-specific test, 326 uninoculated foods were compared by both the HPB and ELFA methods. When comparing the HPB method to the genus-specific ELFA method, the latter had a false-negative rate of 4.6%. There were no false positives. For the species-specific ELFA assay, of the 186 foods compared by the two methods, a false-negative rate of 8.1% and a false-positive rate of 3.8% was observed in the ELFA method as compared to the HPB method.</p>","PeriodicalId":50067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology","volume":"7 3","pages":"183-192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00388.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63412366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INTEGRATION OF HYDROXYAPATITE CONCENTRATION OF BACTERIA AND SEMINESTED PCR TO ENHANCE DETECTION OF SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM FROM GROUND BEEF AND BOVINE CARCASS SPONGE SAMPLES","authors":"ELAINE D. BERRY, GREGORY R. SIRAGUSA","doi":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00411.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00411.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract </b> <i>Hydroxyapatite (HA) concentration of bacteria from ground beef and bovine carcass sponge samples was examined as a method to enhance the PCR detection of</i> Salmonella typhimurium <i>in these samples. Ground beef and carcass sponge samples were inoculated with progressively lower levels of</i> S. typhimurium. <i>Concentrated (10% HA) and unconcentrated samples were prepared for PCR after 0, 2, 3, or 4 h of nonselective enrichment. Without HA concentration and enrichment</i>, Salmonella <i>in ground beef was not detected by seminested PCR, even when present at levels of 10<sup>5</sup> cells/mL in the 1:10 ground beef homogenates. However, when bacteria in these samples were extracted with HA, limits of detection in nonenriched samples were 10<sup>2</sup>-10<sup>3</sup> CFU/mL and in enriched samples were 10<sup>1</sup> CFU/mL (after 2 and 3 h enrichment) and 10<sup>0</sup> CFU/mL (after 4 h enrichment). Without concentration or enrichment, the limit of detection of</i> Salmonella <i>in carcass sponge samples was 10<sup>3</sup> cells/mL. HA concentration of these samples lowered this limit to 10<sup>0</sup> – 10<sup>1</sup> CFU/mL. Nine of 14 different</i> Salmonella <i>serotypes adhered to HA at proportions of 98.0% or more.</i></p>","PeriodicalId":50067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology","volume":"7 1","pages":"7-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00411.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63412642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EDITOR'S CORNER","authors":"DANIEL Y.C. FUNG","doi":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00364.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00364.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology","volume":"7 1","pages":"vi"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00364.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137496596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gala 20th Anniversary International Workshop/Symposium Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology July 6–14, 2000","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00393.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00393.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology","volume":"7 4","pages":"ix-xi"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00393.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137502243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IMAGE ANALYSIS OF COLONY SIZE FOR INVESTIGATING SUBLETHAL INJURY IN LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES","authors":"GARY A. DYKES","doi":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00395.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00395.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract </b> <i>The traditional method for measuring sublethal injury in bacteria involves differential plating of injured cells on selective and nonselective media. Image analysis of the size of colonies from injured</i> Listeria monocytogenes <i>cells plated on nonselective media only was investigated as an alternative. With colonies from healthy cells, colony area was normally distributed, but heat- and starvation-stressed cells produced colonies with areas that showed a significant (p ≤ 0.05) skewness to the right. Although no relationship between sublethal injury and skewness was apparent, mean colony area was linearly (r<sup>2</sup> = 0.90) related to sublethal injury. Mean colony area can therefore be used as a measure of sublethal injury in</i> Listeria monocytogenes, <i>eliminating the need for differential plating in certain experiments examining this phenomenon. Since significantly different (P ≤ 0.05) skewness was apparent between colonies derived from heat-stressed cells as opposed to those derived from starvation-stressed cells, this method also provides further information on variations in injury between individual cells within stressed populations. Due to variations in colony size between strains, the method is limited in many cases to application in single-culture studies.</i></p>","PeriodicalId":50067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology","volume":"7 4","pages":"223-231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00395.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63412678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MULTI-PIPETTE SYSTEM FOR RECOVERY OF LISTERIA SPP. AND SALMONELLA SPP. SIMULTANEOUSLY†","authors":"DONG-HYUN KANG, DANIEL Y.C. FUNG, GUANCHENG JIANG","doi":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00378.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00378.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract </b> <i>A new rapid method to simultaneously isolate</i> Listeria <i>spp. and</i> Salmonella <i>spp. was developed and evaluated. To construct the Multi-Pipette (MP) method, two pipettes were used to hold 1 mL of selective agar media (one pipette: Modified Oxford, MOX medium for</i> Listeria <i>spp. and the other pipette: Xylose Lysine Decarboxylase, XLD medium for</i> Salmonella <i>spp.</i>). <i>One mL of Brain Heart Infusion broth (BHI) was added onto the selective media through the top of 10 mL pipette. The two pipettes were placed together in a sterilized stomacher bag containing 225 mL of sterilized BHI broth that was used as enrichment broth.</i> Listeria <i>spp. or Salmonella spp. were enriched in the BHI broth and moved up to selective agar medium in the pipettes. They changed the color of the agar and also caused turbidity of the BHI on top of the selective agar. Three treatments were used to evaluate the MP method; (1)</i> L. monocytogenes <i>(10<sup>3–4</sup> CFU/mL), (2)</i> S. typhimurium <i>(10<sup>3–4</sup> CFU/mL), and (3)</i> L. monocytogenes <i>(10<sup>3–4</sup> CFU/mL) and</i> S. typhimurium <i>(10<sup>3–4</sup> CFU/mL) inoculated into enrichment broth with competitors</i> [Escherichia coli <i>(10<sup>6–7</sup> CFU/mL) and</i> Staphylococcus aureus <i>(10<sup>6–7</sup> CFU/mL)]. After 24 h of incubation at 35C, the colors of selective media in the MP (MOX in treatment 1, XLD in treatment 2, and MOX and XLD in treatment 3) were changed to black, and the cultures were isolated from BHI broth in the 10 mL pipettes. This approach is simple, rapid, and economical for simultaneous isolation of motile foodborne pathogens.</i></p>","PeriodicalId":50067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology","volume":"7 2","pages":"95-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00378.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63411580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR PROCESSING LITTER AND AIR FILTER MATRICES FROM POULTRY HOUSES TO OPTIMIZE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION DETECTION OF SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM","authors":"Y.M. KWON, C.L. WOODWARD, J. PEÑA, D.E. CORRIER, S.D. PILLAI, S.C. RICKE","doi":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00379.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00379.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract </b> <i>An integrated effort to reduce the occurrence of</i> Salmonella <i>in poultry products should include the control of</i> Salmonella <i>in poultry production in early stages, which requires an efficient monitoring of</i> Salmonella <i>spp. in poultry houses. Studies were conducted to evaluate the potential advantages of using air samples as an alternative to litter samples for PCR detection of</i> Salmonella <i>spp. from poultry houses. The air filter and litter samples from a poultry house were spiked with a culture of</i> Salmonella typhimurium. <i>The intact samples and the DNA extracted from the samples were used for amplification of Salmonella-specific DNA using hns gene specific primers. The</i> ***hns <i>gene was more effectively amplified with filter samples than litter samples when the intact sample was used as template. When extracted DNA was used, however, there was no difference between the two samples in their intensities of PCR products as visualized on an agarose gel. The dilution of the matrices from both sampling methods greatly increased the amplification efficiency, indicating that it was the background matrices that hindered the PCR amplification. The results in this study suggest that air filter sampling may be a labor-saving alternative to litter sampling, which can be used to increase the sensitivity of PCR detection of</i> Salmonella <i>spp. without prior sample processing.</i></p>","PeriodicalId":50067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology","volume":"7 2","pages":"103-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00379.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63411588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A RAPID METHOD FOR DETECTING BACTERIA IN DRINKING WATER","authors":"JIYOUNG LEE, ROLF A. DEININGER","doi":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00382.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00382.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract </b> A rapid determination of the total bacterial count in drinking water is important to the operators of treatment plants and distribution systems. It will allow corrective measures in real-time, such as increasing the disinfectant dose or removing water that has high bacterial numbers. The present heterotrophic plate count (HPC) analysis takes seven days and is not useful for operational intervention. The purpose of this study was to determine if a rapid adenosine triphosphate (ATP) assay would estimate the total number of bacteria in minutes. For quality control purposes and also to test the accuracy of both the ATP and HPC test, direct enumeration of the bacteria in a water sample was done using two epifluorescence methods. One was acridine orange direct count (AODC) method, which allows enumeration of both viable and nonviable bacteria. The other was direct viable count (DVC) method, which enumerates viable bacteria. Water samples originated from local, national, and international locations. The sample selection criteria were based on proximity to the laboratory, cooperating water utilities, and the travel of the authors. The results of the study show that the rapid ATP assay is highly correlated with the conventional plate count method and the DVC method, and estimates the bacterial quality of drinking water in minutes.</p>","PeriodicalId":50067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology","volume":"7 2","pages":"135-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1745-4581.1999.tb00382.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63411671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}