Surface microflora of four smear-ripened cheeses

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 6489-6500

  Mounier, Jérôme ^a   Gelsomino, Roberto ^b   Goerges, Stefanie ^c   Vancanneyt, Marc ^b   Vandemeulebroecke, Katrien ^b   Hoste, Bart ^b   Scherer, Siegfried ^c   Swings, Jean ^b   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^d   Cogan, Timothy M ^a  

^a ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; DAIRY PRODUCTS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GELS; GENES; RNA; YEAST;

MICROBIAL COMPOSITION; PULSED-FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (PFGE); SMEAR-RIPENED CHEESES;

BACTERIA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AGROCOCCUS; ARTHROBACTER ARILAITENSIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BREVIBACTERIUM LINENS; CHEESE; CHEESE RIPENING; CHEESEMAKING; CORYNEBACTERIUM CASEI; CORYNEBACTERIUM VARIABILE; DEBARYOMYCES HANSENII; GENE SEQUENCE; HALOMONAS VENUSTA; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICROBACTERIUM GUBBEENENSE; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EQUORUM; VIBRIO; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA; YEAST;

BACTERIA; CHEESE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FOOD HANDLING; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

AGROCOCCUS; ARTHROBACTER; ARTHROBACTER SP.; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BREVIBACTERIUM LINENS; CORYNEBACTERIUM CASEI; CORYNEBACTERIUM VARIABILE; DEBARYOMYCES HANSENII; HALOMONAS VENUSTA; MICROBACTERIUM GUBBEENENSE; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EQUORUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; VIBRIO; VIBRIO SP.; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

EID: 32044437371     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.11.6489-6500.2005     Document Type: Article

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