EFFICIENCY OF DOUBLE STEPS ENRICHMENT IN THE UVM AND FRASER BROTHES AND PERFORMANCE OF LPM AND LSAB-CAN AGARS TO DETECTION OF Listeria spp. IN NATURALLY CONTAMINATED CHICKEN MEAT

Abstract

It was determined the performance of two selective broths and two agars to isolate Listeria from chicken meat naturally contaminated, acquired in the supermarkets of Goiânia-Goiás, between January and June 1992. Methodology of isolation involved the utilization of two-stage selective enrichment in the University of Vermont and Fraser broths and plating in lithium chloride-phenyletanol-moxalactam agar and the Listeria selective agar base supplemented with cicloheximide, acriflavine and nalidixic acid. Incubation was done at 300C for 48 hours. Cultures of secondary enrichment broth were inoculated in duplicated plates with and without previous treatment with a 0.25% potassium hydroxide solution during one minute, while the plates from primary enrichment broth were inoculated only with treated cultures. Primary and secondary selective broths showed comparable efficiency at the statistic point of view (Z= -1.7393<1.96), identifying 90.28% and 97.22% of all positive samples of this experiment, respectively. Using the lithium chloride-pheniletanol-moxalactam agar and the Listeria selective agar base supplemented with cicloheximide, acriflavine and nalidixic acid were detected 98.61% and 54.17% of the positive samples. These differences were significant at statistic view. The treatment of broths with 0.25% potassium hydroxide showed a little reduction in the number of positive samples detected.

KEY-WORDS: Listeria; enrichment broth; chicken meat.