Use of photon emission to identify the degree of microbial contamination of liquid biological substances

The incidence of foodborne infections has increased worldwide over the past few years, with Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacterial pathogens at the epicenter of most reported cases. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of microbial contamination, understood as the abundance of microorganisms per unit of liquid biological substance, on the photon emission rate of the aforementioned substances. Such identification will allow to parametrize the process of microbial multiplication in a given substance by the photon emission rate, which would create a fast and contact-free method of estimating the concerned abundance of microorganisms. It was found that with the increase in the abundance of microorganisms in suspension, the number of photons emitted from it increases and the trend of this increase can be described by a linear function.