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Surface microflora of four smear-ripened cheeses.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Nov 2005
Mounier Jérôme, Gelsomino Roberto, Goerges Stefanie, Vancanneyt Marc, Vandemeulebroecke Katrien, Hoste Bart, Scherer Siegfried, Swings Jean, Fitzgerald Gerald F, Cogan Timothy M
Abstract excerpt
The microbial composition of smear-ripened cheeses is not very clear. A total of 194 bacterial isolates and 187 yeast isolates from the surfaces of four Irish farmhouse smear-ripened cheeses were identified at the midpoint of ripening using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), repetitive sequence-based PCR, and 16S rRNA gene sequencing for identifying and typing the bacteria and Fourier transform infrared...
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