Inhibiting Gram-negative bacteria growth in microdilution by Nisin and EDTA treatment
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https://doi.org/10.20873/jbb.uft.cemaf.v3n4.bordignonKeywords:
Antimicrobial, outer membrane, bacteriocin, Salmonella, Escherichia, Pseudomonas, StaphylococcusAbstract
The outer membrane composition of Gram-negative bacteria provides more resistance against the action of antimicrobial agents from the class of bacteriocins, in comparison to Gram-positive bacteria, naturally more susceptible. Aiming the control of proliferation Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Salmonella Typhimurium, antimicrobial assays were performed with nisin as biocidal agent (concentrations 123 to 1,111 AU mL-1) and EDTA as chelating agent, compared to a Gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus ATCC25923). The susceptibility evaluations were performed in broth microdilution with Mueller-Hinton medium and inoculum with 106 CFU mL-1 of indicator bacterium, and the results were obtained by optical density readings (630 nm) at regular intervals during the incubation period. It was observed that EDTA is capable of reducing cell viability of P. aeruginosa. The bacteriocin nisin demonstrated effective antimicrobial action to four indicator bacteria, under different concentrations. The combined treatments of nisin+EDTA obtained high inhibition rates, and the presence of EDTA was significant only to Gram-negative bacteria. Thus, treatments accounted effective strategies to promote inhibition of cell growth during microdilution broth assays.
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