Investigation of a simple amperometric electrode system to rapidly quantify and detect bacteria in foods
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Bacteriology
- Vol. 66 (1) , 49-55
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.1989.tb02453.x
Abstract
A two electrode system mounted as a single probe was developed to measure electrochemically the rate of reduction of a redox mediator (thionine) by bacteria. The system gave a rapid (2 min) bacterial‐dependent current above 2.5×105 cfu/ml with pure cultures of bacteria, but when applied to the measurement of the bacterial contamination in samples of meat and milk it was unable to detect or quantify the contamination reliably. Incubation of samples for a few hours before examination enabled the system to detect bacteria in excess of 106 cfu/ml.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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