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FOOD SCIENCE & NUTRITION
卷 8, 期 9, 页码 4739-4745出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.1698
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food safety; gastric survival; MRSA; ST1; ST398
A known amount (10(7) cfu/ml) of animal origin Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) ST398/t011/V and of human origin MRSA ST1/t127/IVa strains were individually inoculated intoricottacheese and hamburger samples. The pH of each food matrix was gradually decreased from 6.0 down to 2.0 during a period of about 2 hr, under conditions simulating the mechanical digestion of the human stomach. Afterward, the MRSA strains were recovered by using a MRSA-specific plating medium. Although both strains showed a certain acidic resistance, they showed different responses at low pH values during the experiment: ST398 survived unharmed during the course of the experiments to the last stage at pH 2 where counts of 6.4 cfu/g for the hamburger and 7.5 log cfu/g forricotta cheese assays were obtained. In contrast, the ST1 population was no longer detectable at pH 3 in the hamburger and at pH 2 in thericottacheese assays. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that investigates the ability of MRSA to overcome the acidic conditions of the human stomach and that adds new evidence that might contribute to expand the scientific knowledge on the significance of MRSA in the food safety debate.
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