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 Growth Factors For Selected Bacteria


ORGANISM TEMP °Ca  pHa  aWa
Salmonella spp. 5.2 / 35-43 / 46.2 3.8 / 7.0-7.5 / 9.5 0.94 / 0.99 / >0.99
Clostridium botulinum
A & B 10 - 50 4.7 - 9 >0.93
nonproteolytic B 5 - ? -b NRc
E 3.3 - 15-30 -b >0.965
F 4 - ? -b NRc
Staphylococcus aureus 7 / 37 / 48 4.0 / 6.0-7.0 / 10 0.83(0.9) / 0.98 / >0.99
Campylobacter jejuni 32 / 42-43 / 45 4.9 / 6.5-7.5 / ca9 >0.987 / 0.997 / -
Yersinia enterocolitica -1.3 / 25-37 / 42 4.2 / 7.2 / 9.6 - / - / 5% NaCl
Listeria monocytogenes -0.4 / 37 / 45 4.39 / 7.0 / 9.4  0.92 / - / -
Vibrio cholerae O1 10 / 37 / 43 5.0 / 7.6 / 9.6 0.970 / 0.984 / 0.998

V. cholerae non-O1

-b -b -b
Vibrio parahaemolyticus 5 / 37 / 43 4.8 / 7.8-8.6 / 11 0.940 / 0.981 / 0.996
Clostridium perfringens 4 / 43-47 / 50 5.5-5.8 / 7.2 / 8.0-9.0 0.97 / 0.95-0.96 / 0.93
Bacillus cereus 4 / 30-40 / 55  5.0 / 6.0-7.0 / 8.8 0.93 / - / -
Escherichia coli ca7-8 / 35-40 / ca44-46   4.4 / 6-7 / 9.0 0.95 / 0.995 / -
Shigella sonnei  6.1 / - / 47.1  4.9 / - / 9.34  - / - / 5.18% NaCl
Shigella flexneri 7.9 / - / 45.2  5.0 / - / 9.19 - / - / 3.78% NaCl

a. minimum / optimum / maximum values.
b. The value, though unreported, is probably close to other species of the genus.
c. NR denotes that no reported value could be found, but for most vegetative cells, an aW of  >0.95 would be expected.
Values taken from:
ICMSF(1996) Microorganisms in Foods 5: Characteristics of Microbial Pathogens, Roberts, T. A., Baird-Parker, A. C. and Tompkin, R. B. (eds.), Blackie Academic & Professional, London [ISBN 0 412 47350 X]
Microbial Survival in the Environment, E. Mitscherlich and E.H. Marth (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg, 1984. [ISBN 3-540-13726-2 Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York, Tokyo] [ISBN 0-387-13726-2 Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin, Tokyo].
 
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