AGAR MEDIUM FOR ENUMERATION OF FECAL-COLIFORMS

被引:5
作者
CHEN, HC [1 ]
WU, SD [1 ]
机构
[1] CHINA JUNIOR COLL MARINE TECHNOL,DEPT SEA PROD PROC,TAIPEI 111,TAIWAN
关键词
FECAL COLIFORMS; ENUMERATION; AGAR MEDIUM;
D O I
10.1111/j.1365-2621.1992.tb06882.x
中图分类号
TS2 [食品工业];
学科分类号
0832 ;
摘要
Spread-inoculated plates of fecal-coliform agar (FCA) were pre-incubated 2 hr at 35-degrees-C, and then transferred to 44.5-degrees-C for 22 hr. Fecal coliforms on FCA produce acids and CO2 which react with bromocresol purple and calcium lactate to form yellow to yellow-green colonies surrounded by a pale yellow zone. Recovery of control or freeze-stressed Escherichia coli on FCA was about 1 log cycle lower than that with nonselective media. The accuracy for FCA to enumerate fecal coliforms from 138 typical colonies of three food samples was 98.6%; while the false positive was 1.4%. When the method was compared with the standard 3-tube MPN method for fecal coliforms, counts from two methods were not significantly different (p > 0.05).
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页码:1454 / 1457
页数:4
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