Listeria monocytogenes growth

The inhibitory effect of citric acid on Listeria monocytogenes growth has been found to be much more evident than the inhibitory effect of ascorbic acid. The difference in inhibition between both acids is most obvious when the temperature is higher. Because of the pf( values of citric acid (pKj = 3.14, pK2 = 4.77, and p/<3 = 6.39), it dissociates strongly inside microbial cells (Carrasco, Garcia-Gimeno, and Seselovsky, 2006). 

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Habimana, O., Guillier, L., Kulakauskas, S., and Briandet, R. (2011) Spatial competition with Lactococcus lactis in mixed-species continuous-flow biofilms inhibits Listeria monocytogenes growth. Biofouling 27, 1065-1072. 

Beuchat, L.R. and Brackett, R.E. (1990) Survival and growth of Listeria monocytogenes on lettuce as influenced by shredding, chlorine treatment, modified atmosphere packaging and temperature . Journal of Food Science, 55, 755-758. 

Chan, Y. C., Boor, K. J., and Wiedmann, M. (2007). B-dependent and -independent mechanisms contribute to transcription of Listeria monocytogenes cold stress genes during cold shock and cold growth. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73, 6484-6498. 

Banada, P. P., Liu, Y.-S., Yang, L. J., Bashir, R., and Bhunia, A. K. (2006). Performance evaluation of a low conductive growth medium (LCGM) for healthy and stressed Listeria monocytogenes and other common bacterial species. Int. J. Food Microbiol. Ill, 12-20. Banada, P. P., Guo, S., Bayraktar, B., Bae, E., Rajwa, B., Robinson, J. P., Hirleman, E. D., and Bhunia, A. K. (2007). Optical forward-scattering for detection of Listeria monocytogenes and other Listeria species. Biosens. Bioelectron. 22,1664-1671. 

Aspergillus niger, S. cerevisiae, Mycoderma sp., Lactobacillus acidophilus and B. cereus, as estimated by the paper disc agar diffusion method (Meena and Sethi, 1994). The oil also inhibits the growth of Fusarium verticilloides (Veluti et al., 2004). Clove oil (1% v/w) inhibits Listeria monocytogenes in chicken frankfurters (Mytle et al., 2006). It has excellent antimicrobial properties and is used in food preservation (Smith Palmer etal., 1998, 2001). 

K. T. Rajkowski, S. M. Calderone and E. Jones (1994). Effect of polyphosphate and sodium chloride on the growth of Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus in ultra-high temperature milk../. Dairy Sci., 77, 1503-1508. 

Sodium ascorbate is used as an antioxidant in pharmaceutical formulations, and also in food products where it increases the effectiveness of sodium nitrite against growth of Listeria monocytogenes in cooked meats. It improves gel cohesiveness and sensory firmness of fiberized products regardless of vacuum treatment. 

Allende, A., Martinez, B., Selma, V., Gil, M.I., Suarez, J.E., and Rodriguez, A. 2007. Growth and bacteriocin production by lactic acid bacteria in vegetable broth and their effectiveness at reducing Listeria monocytogenes in vitro and in fresh-cut lettuce. Food Microbiology 24 759-766. 

Gonzalez-Fandos, E. and Dominguez, J.L. 2007. Effect of potassium sorbate washing on the growth of Listeria monocytogenes on fresh poultry. Food Control 18 842-846. 

Carroll, C.D., Alvarado, C.Z., Brashears, M.M., Thompson, L.D., and Boyce, J. 2007. Marination of turkey breast fillets to control the growth of Listeria monocytogenes and improve meat quality in deli loaves. Poultry Science 86 150-155. 

Dorsa, W.J., Marshall, D.L., and Semien, M. 1993. Effect of potassium sorbate and citric acid sprays on growth of Listeria monocytogenes on cooked crawfish tail meat at 4°C. Lebensmittel-Wissenschaft und-Technologie 26 480 483. 

Radin, D., Niebuhr, S.E., and Dickson, J.S. 2006. Impact of the population of spoilage microflora on the growth of Listeria monocytogenes on frankfurters. Journal of Food Protection 69 679-681. 

Gill, C.O., Greer, G.G., and Dilts, B.D. 1997. The aerobic growth of Aeromonas hydro-phila and Listeria monocytogenes in broths and on pork. International Journal of Food Microbiology 35 67-74. 

Bereksi, N., Gavini, F., Benezech, T., and Faille, C. 2002. Growth, morphology and surface properties of Listeria monocytogenes Scott A and L028 under saline and acid environments. Journal of Applied Microbiology 92 556-565. 

Breidt, F., Jr. and Fleming, H.P 1998. Modeling of the competitive growth of Listeria monocytogenes and Lcatococcus lactis in vegetable broth. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64 3159-3165. 

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