The core and seasonal microbiota of raw bovine milk in tanker trucks and the impact of transfer to a milk processing facility

mBio

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Kable, Mary E ^a   Srisengfa, Yanin ^a   Laird, Miles ^a   Zaragoza, Jose ^a   McLeod, Jeremy ^b   Heidenreich, Jessie ^b   Marco, Maria L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Hilmar Cheese Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ACINETOBACTER; ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDETES; CLOSTRIDIALES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIRMICUTES; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD STORAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MILK; MOLLICUTES; MOTOR VEHICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA GENE; SANITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SUMMER; TANKER TRUCK; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BIOTA; CALIFORNIA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DAIRYING; DEVICES; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEASON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOTA; CALIFORNIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DAIRYING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MILK; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84986563773     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00836-16     Document Type: Article

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