| Autor: |
Kingsley DH; ARS, Food Safety & Intervention Technologies Research Unit, USDA, Delaware State University, Dover, DE, 19901, USA. David.Kingsley@ars.usda.gov., Chen H; Department of Animal & Food Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716-2150, USA., Annous BA; ARS, ERRC, Food Safety & Intervention Technologies Research Unit, USDA, Wyndmoor, PA, 19038, USA., Meade GK; ARS, Food Safety & Intervention Technologies Research Unit, USDA, Delaware State University, Dover, DE, 19901, USA. |
| Abstrakt: |
Male-specific coliphages (MSCs) are currently used to assess the virologic quality of shellfish-growing waters and to assess the impact of sewage release or adverse weather events on bivalve shellfish. Since MSC can have either DNA or RNA genomes, and most research has been performed exclusively on RNA MSCs, persistence of M13, a DNA MSC, was evaluated for its persistence as a function of time and temperature within Eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica). Oysters were individually exposed to seawater containing a total of 10 10 to 10 12 pfu of M13 for 24 h at 15 °C followed by maintenance in tanks with as many as 21 oysters in continuously UV-sterilized water for up to 6 weeks at either 7, 15, or 22 °C. Two trials for each temperature were performed combining three shucked oysters per time point which were assayed by tenfold serial dilution in triplicate. Initial contamination levels averaged 10 6.9 and ranged from 10 6.0 to 10 7.0 of M13. For oysters held for 3 weeks, log 10 reductions were 1.7, 3.8, and 4.2 log 10 at 7, 15, and 22 °C, respectively. Oysters held at 7 and 15 °C for 6 weeks showed average reductions of 3.6 and 5.1 log 10 , respectively, but still retained infectious M13. In total, this work shows that DNA MSC may decline within shellfish in a manner analogous to RNA MSCs. |
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