Rapid Detection of Clostridium botulinum Toxin by Capillary Tube Diffusion
AUTOR(ES)
Mestrandrea, Leonard W.
RESUMO
A micro capillary agar-gel diffusion system for the detection of botulinal toxin in foods and cultures was developed and evaluated. Toxins types A, B, and E, produced in culture broth with and without added trypsin, and type E toxin, produced in inoculated canned clams, were tested with this system and with the mouse bioassay procedure. With nontrypsinized toxin, the capillary diffusion system detected as little as 100 minimal lethal doses (MLD) per ml but was effective only at higher levels, 106 to 1.5 × 107 MLD/ml, when used with trypsinized toxin. The inability to detect lower levels of trypsinized toxin was due to thioglycolate present in the medium used to produce toxin. Evidently, trypsinization of toxin produces polypeptides still held together by disulfide bonds. Cleavage of these bonds by reduction with thioglycolate reduces the sensitivity of the capillary method. Trypsinized toxin produced in broth without thioglycolate was detected as readily as nontrypsinized toxin. Toxin was detected in canned clams containing as low as 100 MLD/ml. No cross-reactions were observed with type E toxin and types A and B antitoxins. Extensive studies using the capillary method for detecting types A and B toxins were not performed; however, a suspected sample of commercially canned mushrooms gave a positive type B reaction but not a type A reaction. This typing was confirmed later by the mouse bioassay. Toxin was present at a level of 100 MLD/ml. The procedure developed may prove useful as a rapid screening method for the detection of botulinal toxin in foods, with final identification made by using the mouse bioassay.
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