CULTURE MEDIUM FOR QUICKLY DETECTING THERMOPHILIC STRICTLY ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM, AND METHOD FOR SHORTENING HIGHLY SENSITIVE DETECTION PERIOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a culture medium enabling the simple and quick detection of thermophilic Clostridium bacteria which are deterioration indicator bacteria for retort can drink products, and to provide a specimen inoculation method for enhancing the detection sensitivity of the bacteria.;SOLUTION: This culture medium for detecting the thermophilic Clostridium bacteria is characterized by preliminarily adding neutral red, corn starch and pyruvic acid or a pyruvate. The proliferation of the thermophilic Clostridium bacteria can be confirmed by the change in the color of the culture medium, and the bacteria can easily discriminated in a short time. The bacteria can highly sensitively be detected by mixing a specimen with an anaerobic bacterium detection culture medium held in an anaerobic state.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT