Substituting Allose as the primary carbon source during enrichment helps improve detection and isolation of Lineage II Listeria monocytogenes from food
Substituting Allose as the primary carbon source during enrichment helps improve detection and isolation of Lineage II Listeria monocytogenes from food
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- creativework.keywords - en
- Listeria
- dc.contributor.author
- Upham, Jacqueline P.
- Eisebraun, Mikaela
- Fortuna, Alex
- Mallo, Gustavo V.
- dc.date.accepted
- 2023-05-08
- dc.date.accessioned
- 2023-11-27T20:04:54Z
- dc.date.available
- 2023-11-27T20:04:54Z
- dc.date.issued
- 2023-05-11
- dc.date.submitted
- 2022-12-19
- dc.description.abstract - en
- Testing of foods for low levels of the human pathogen, Listeria monocytogenes (Lm), involves a selective enrichment procedure. A nonpathogenic species of Listeria, L. innocua (Li), is often present in foods and food-manufacturing environments and is an interference organism for Lm detection due to competition during enrichment. The present study investigated whether a novel enrichment strategy incorporating the sugar allose into the secondary enrichment broth (allose method) could improve the detection of Lm from foods when Li is present. First, Canadian food isolates of Listeria spp. were tested to confirm recent reports that lineage II Lm (LII-Lm), but not Li, could metabolize allose. All LII-Lm isolates (n = 81), but not Li (n = 36), possessed the allose genes lmo0734-lmo0739, and could efficiently metabolize allose. Next, smoked salmon was contaminated with mixtures of LII-Lm and Li and tested using different enrichment procedures to compare the ability to recover Lm. Allose broth was more effective than Fraser Broth, with Lm detected in 87% (74 of 85) compared to 59% (50 of 85) of the samples (P < 0.05), following a common preenrichment. When evaluated against a current Health Canada method (MFLP-28), the allose method was more effective, with LII-Lm detected in 88% (57 of 65) compared to 69% (45 of 65) of the samples (P < 0.05). The allose method also remarkably increased the ratio of LII-Lm to Li postenrichment, which improved the ease of obtaining isolated Lm colonies for confirmation tests. Allose may therefore provide a tool for use when the presence of background flora interferes with Lm detection. As this tool is specifically applicable to a subset of Lm, the use of this method modification may provide a working example of tailoring methodology to target the known subtype of the pathogen of interest in an outbreak investigation, or for regular monitoring activities in conjunction with a PCR screen for allose genes on preenrichment cultures.
- dc.identifier.citation
- Upham, J. P., Eisebraun, M., Fortuna, A., & Mallo, G. V. (2023). Substituting allose as the primary carbon source during enrichment helps improve detection and isolation of lineage II listeria monocytogenes from food. Journal of Food Protection, 86(7), 100104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfp.2023.100104
- dc.identifier.doi
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfp.2023.100104
- dc.identifier.uri
- https://open-science.canada.ca/handle/123456789/1321
- dc.language.iso
- en
- dc.publisher
- Elsevier
- dc.rights - en
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- dc.rights - fr
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- dc.rights.openaccesslevel - en
- Gold
- dc.rights.openaccesslevel - fr
- Or
- dc.rights.uri - en
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- dc.rights.uri - fr
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.fr
- dc.subject - en
- Health and safety
- dc.subject - fr
- Santé et sécurité
- dc.subject.en - en
- Health and safety
- dc.subject.fr - fr
- Santé et sécurité
- dc.title - en
- Substituting Allose as the primary carbon source during enrichment helps improve detection and isolation of Lineage II Listeria monocytogenes from food
- dc.type - en
- Article
- dc.type - fr
- Article
- local.acceptedmanuscript.articlenum
- 100104
- local.article.journalissue
- 7
- local.article.journaltitle
- Journal of Food Protection
- local.article.journalvolume
- 86
- local.peerreview - en
- Yes
- local.peerreview - fr
- Oui
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