Biodiversity of psychrotrophic bacteria of the Bacillus cereus group collected on farm and in egg product industry
2011
Jan, S. | Brunet, N. | Techer, C. | Le Maréchal, C. | Koné, A.Z. | Grosset, N. | Cochet, M.F. | Gillard, A. | Gautier, M. | Puterflam, J. | Baron, F.
The aim of the present study was (i) to type, by genotypic and phenotypic methods, a collection of psychrotrophic bacteria belonging to the Bacillus cereus group collected in a farm and in 6 egg breaking companies during a period covering a warm and a cold season, and (ii) to characterize the growth potential in liquid whole egg, and the sanitary risk potential (cytotoxic activity on Caco-2 cells and adhesion on stainless steel) of each isolate of the collection. The investigation of specific psychrotrophic and mesophilic signatures together with the study of ability to grow at 6 °C and/or at 43 °C on optimal agar medium allowed highlighting twelve profiles, the major one corresponding to the species Bacillus weihenstephanensis (46.2% of the collection). The diversity of the profiles depended on the season and on the origin of the isolates. All the isolates were able to grow at the same level in liquid whole egg and in optimal medium, even at low temperature. Under the same conditions, the cytotoxic activity depended on the isolate, the medium and the temperature. At 10 °C, no isolate was cytotoxic in liquid whole egg and only one, belonging to the Bacillus weihenstephansensis species, in the optimal medium. All the isolates were able to adhere on stainless steel at various levels, from 2.6 ± 0.2 log cfu/cm² to 4.9 ± 0.1 log cfu/cm². A large majority (80.8%) was strongly adhering and could lead to the formation of biofilms in industrial equipments.
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