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Published on: December 8, 2017
Construction of and Comparisons Between Response Surface Models for Aeromonas hydrophila ATCC 7966 and a Food Isolate
1Meat Industry Research Institute of New Zealand (Inc.), PO Box 617, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Abstract:
Response surface models were constructed for two strains of Aeromonas hydrophila , one the type strain (ATCC 7966) and the other isolated from chilled cooked mussels, for various conditions of temperature, pH, and NaCl concentration. The food-derived strain was found to be better adapted to growth at low temperatures than the type strain. Comparisons between the two strains and with the published model for strain K144, a clinical isolate, showed that the three strains differed in their predicted generation and lag times at refrigeration (5°C) and close to optimum (28°C) temperatures. Comparison of the new models with published data for growth of A. hydrophila on fleshfoods, showed that the model for the food-derived strain best predicted the measured lag times, while the model for the type strain best predicted the generation times.
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