Minimal water activity for enterotoxin A production and growth of Staphylococcus aureus
- 1 August 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 36 (2) , 377-380
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.36.2.377-380.1978
Abstract
The minimal water activity (alphaw) for growth was correlated with enterotoxin A formation by two strains of Staphylococcus aureus in a salt mixture broth. Within 7 days at 30 degrees C both strains grew and formed enterotoxin A minimally between alphaw 0.864 and 0.867, but at 25 degrees C, the minimal alphaw for both activities was increased to between 0.870 and 0.887 after a 2-week incubation.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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