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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1990 May; 56(5): 1480-1484

Improved fluorogenic assay for rapid detection of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in foods.

Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

ABSTRACT

An improved fluorogenic assay for the rapid detection of Vibrio parahaemolyticus was developed. In the improved assay, the enrichment of V. parahaemolyticus was carried out in arabinose-glucuronate medium (0.5% arabinose, 0.25% glucuronate, 0.1% polypeptone, 0.1% yeast extract, 0.1% ammonium sulfate, 2% NaCl, 2 micrograms of polymyxin B sulfate per ml, pH 8.5) at 37 degrees C. After the cultivation, the trypsinlike activity of the bacteria was measured by fluorescence with the fluorogenic substrate benzoyl-L-arginine-7-aminomethylcoumarin. Even in the presence of 3 x 10(5) cells of Vibrio alginolyticus, 20 cells of V. parahaemolyticus were clearly detected after a 6-h enrichment cultivation by the assay. Fifty contaminated samples of 14 seafoods were examined for V. parahaemolyticus by the fluorogenic assay after enrichment cultivation for 6 or 8 h. The results were then compared with those obtained by the conventional bromothymol blue Teepol agar assay and the most-probable-number method. There was a linear relationship between trypsinlike activity measured by the assay and the number of V. parahaemolyticus cells in seafood as determined by the bromothymol blue Teepol agar and most-probable-number methods. Correlation coefficients were 0.95 and 0.93 after a 6-h cultivation and an 8-h cultivation, respectively. The presence of 10 cells of V. parahaemolyticus per gram of seafood sample was detected after a 10-h total detection time by the fluorogenic assay.

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