Incidence and diversity of potentially highly heat-resistant spores isolated at dairy farms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1480-1494

  Scheldeman, Patsy ^a,c   Pil, Annelies ^a,b,d   Herman, Lieve ^a   De Vos, Paul ^b   Heyndrickx, Marc ^a  

^a Ministry of the Flemish Community   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Department of Animal Product Quality ^*  (Belgium)

^d VETERINARY AND AGROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; DAIRY PRODUCTS; DNA; FATTY ACIDS; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; RNA; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DAIRY INDUSTRY; FILTER CLOTH; HEAT-RESISTANT SPORES; MILKING EQUIPMENT;

BACTERIA;

FATTY ACID ESTER; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

DAIRY FARMING; MILK; SPORE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS SPOROTHERMODURANS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DAIRYING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEAT TOLERANCE; HEAT TREATMENT; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; MILK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SCREENING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS; BELGIUM; CATTLE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DAIRYING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT; MILK; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS PALLIDUS; BACILLUS SPOROTHERMODURANS; UNIDENTIFIED AGENTS;

EID: 15444375707     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.3.1480-1494.2005     Document Type: Article

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