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PhD Vermeiren Lieve Compleet - Hogeschool Gent

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with a high glucose content of about 1.3% (w/w) glucose. The difficulty in quantifying such<br />

an interaction was to individually follow the growth of the homofermentative LAB-strain on<br />

the one hand and the growth of the heterofermentative LAB-strain on the other hand when<br />

growing in co-culture on the MCH. To resolve this issue, the medium TC8-MRS-agar,<br />

consisting of MRS-agar supplemented with tetracycline at 8 µg/ml, was developed. This agar<br />

medium allowed the differentiation of LM4-colonies from 10A-colonies or LS5-colonies after<br />

incubation for three days at 30°C under anaerobic conditions.<br />

When artificially contaminating the MCH with BT1 at 10 2 cfu/g in combination with 10A at<br />

10 5 cfu/g, the growth of BT1 was significantly slower compared to its simultaneous monoculture<br />

growth. In a similar experiment with LM4, this strain reached a level of 10 7 cfu/g<br />

approximately 14 days later when LM4 grew together with L. sakei 10A compared to its<br />

growth in mono-culture. The lactocin S producing LS5 did not demonstrate an inhibitory<br />

action towards LM4 or BT1. On the MCH with low glucose content as well as on the MCH<br />

with high glucose content, antagonistic interactions of L. sakei 10A towards LM4 and BT1<br />

occurred; the antagonistic effect of L. sakei 10A was not eliminated when glucose was<br />

abundant in the product.<br />

The results of this chapter indicated that L. sakei 10A has potential as protective culture for<br />

the shelf-life prolongation of CMP, while Lactobacillus sakei LS5 had not.<br />

Chapter 5 investigated the same potential protective cultures that had been studied in chapter<br />

4, being the Lactobacillus sakei subsp. carnosus strain (10A) and the lactocin S producing<br />

Lactobacillus sakei 148 (LS5). Their capacity to increase the food safety and in particular to<br />

control the growth of L. monocytogenes on CMP was investigated. The interaction between<br />

these LAB and a cocktail of three L. monocytogenes strains was examined in co-culture<br />

studies on a MCH. Furthermore, the influence of the inoculum level (10 5 cfu/g versus<br />

10 6 cfu/g), storage temperature (4°C versus 7°C) and packaging type (vacuum packaging<br />

versus modified atmosphere packaging) on the interaction phenomena was investigated. At<br />

7°C, applying L. sakei 10A at 10 6 cfu/g limited the growth of L. monocytogenes to a level<br />

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