Histidine Decarboxylase Activity of Bacteria Isolated from Raw and Ripened Salchichón , a Spanish Cured Sausage
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Artur X Roig-Sagues1, Manuela Hernandez-Herrero1, Emilio I Lopez-Sabater1
1Unitat Docent d'Higiene i Inspecció dels Aliments, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
Abstract:
Twenty samples of raw sausages (before the ripening process) and 10 of ripened sausages of two different sizes of salchichón , one of the most-consumed ripened meat products in Spain, were microbiologically analyzed. Histidine decarboxylase activity of different isolates obtained from different culture media was evaluated by a decarboxylase agar medium and confirmed afterwards by an enzymatic method. Of the isolates obtained from raw sausages, 15.8% showed histamine-forming activity, most of them (78.1%) belonging to the Enterobacteriaceae family. Klebsiella oxytoca , Enterobacter aerogenes (one isolate), and Enterobacter cloacae (six isolates) showed a powerful histamine-forming activity, producing more than 3,000 μg/ml. In spite of histamine-forming activity being detected in eight of ten analyzed samples of ripened sausages, only one histamine-forming bacterium, identified as Lactobacillus curvatus , was isolated; it showed an ability to form 1,994 μg/ml of histamine in experimental conditions.
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