Antimicrobial effect of chlorine on Yersinia enterocolitica.

The effects of chlorine at varying pH, culture media and incubation temperatures on one type and two wild type strains of Yersinia enterocolitica were studied. Exposure to 1 and 5 mg 1(-1) did not diminish viability, even after prolonged exposure. A level of 10 mg 1(-1) was required to achieve a 5-log reduction in 120 s for the type strain and 80 s for the wild strains. There was an increase of more than 30% in the rate of disinfection with a 10 degrees C rise, a remarkable increase in antimicrobial activity at pH 5-log reduction in 20 s, as well as marked neutralization of the effect in the presence of 0.1% peptone. Younger cells were more susceptible than older ones, and those from liquid medium more resistant than those from solid medium. Incubation temperature of a 24-h inoculum failed to show any influence. Lastly, there was a noteworthy demand for free chlorine by bacterial biomass, with agreement of the curve depicting the drop in free chlorine in the presence of inoculum with biphasic kinetics of survival curves.

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