Abstract

IZQUIERDO-FIALLO, Katherin et al. Study of the consistency of a culture on of Streptococcus pneumoniae 19A on rotational shaker at a scale of 40 L. Vaccimonitor [online]. 2020, vol.29, n.2, pp.47-50.  Epub Aug 01, 2020. ISSN 1025-028X.

Streptococcus pneumoniae is an opportunistic pathogen that can cause infections including otitis media, pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis. However, there are many limitations for the cultivation in shaker of this microorganism in microbiology laboratories. For this reason, a study of the consistency of the culture in shaker of Streptoccoccus pneumoniae 19A was carried out at a scale of 40 L. The pattern growth curve was made until 5 h, under our laboratory conditions and culture medium. From the pre-inoculum 6 bottles of 100 mL were inoculated, from which the scaling was accomplished to bottles of 1 L and 5 L. In all cases the purity was determined by Gram staining and the bacterial growth by viable counting method and the optical density were monitored every 1 h. In addition, the yield was evaluated from the determination of the amount of biomass obtained by wet weight. Each process has been made in equal conditions in triplicate. In the three processes, similar growth curves were obtained both by optical density and by viable counts, reaching a maximum viability of 109 CFU/mL on the last scale. In addition, biomass yields of 11.62, 11.92 and 11.60 g/L were obtained, respectively. These results demonstrate that the methodology used offers a high process consistency, despite the high volume of culture in rotational shaker, and did not affect the quality of the biomass, which could be demonstrated by the viable count.

Keywords : Streptococcus pneumoniae; culture media; bacterial growth; biomass.

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