The microbiota of marketed processed edible insects as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

Food Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2017, Pages 15-22

  Garofalo, Cristiana ^a   Osimani, Andrea ^a   Milanović, Vesna ^a   Taccari, Manuela ^a   Cardinali, Federica ^a   Aquilanti, Lucia ^a   Riolo, Paola ^a   Ruschioni, Sara ^a   Isidoro, Nunzio ^a   Clementi, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acheta domesticus; Entomophagy; Locusta migratoria; Microbial community; Next generation sequencing; Tenebrio molitor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; CAELIFERA; CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENETICS; GRYLLIDAE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLACEAE; LARVA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; SALMONELLA; TENEBRIO; YEAST;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; GRASSHOPPERS; GRYLLIDAE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INSECTS; LACTOBACILLACEAE; LARVA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIOTA; SALMONELLA; TENEBRIO; YEASTS;

EID: 84988598776     PISSN: 07400020     EISSN: 10959998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2016.09.012     Document Type: Article

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