title: Development of a surface adhesion immunofluorescent technique for the rapid detection of Salmonella spp. from meat and poultry.
abstract: A rapid method based on bacterial adhesion was developed for the detection of Salmonella in an enriched meat system. Minced beef samples inoculated with Salm. enteritidis (10 cfu g-1) were incubated overnight (18 h) at 37 degrees C in buffered peptone water. Salmonella enteritidis cells were isolated from the enriched meat sample by surface adhesion onto a polycarbonate membrane attached to a glass slide. The organisms attached to this polycarbonate membrane were subsequently visualized using immunofluorescent microscopy. The technique had a detection level of log10 3.5 Salmonella ml-1. The surface adhesion immunofluorescent technique correlated well with Salmonella plate counts (r2 = 0.99). Application of the rapid method to retail beef and poultry samples (n = 100) confirmed the correlation between this technique and traditional microbiological procedures. Thirty-one retail samples were reported positive for Salmonella species. No false positives or negatives were recorded for the rapid method.
authors.affiliation: National Food Centre, Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland. O.cloak@NFC.Teagasc.ie
authors.forename: O M
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Cloak
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Duffy
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Sheridan
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: McDowell
authors.forename: I S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Blair
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001422:Bacterial Adhesion; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D002417:Cattle; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D003470:Culture Media; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D008460:Meat / Q000382:microbiology*; D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D011200:Poultry / Q000382:microbiology*; D012475:Salmonella / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D012703:Serotyping
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D008567:Membranes, Artificial