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Characterization of Lactobacillus helveticus strains isolated from cheeses by distribution studies of insertion sequences.
International journal of food microbiology - 1 Nov 2006
Ricci Giovanni, Fortina M Grazia
Abstract excerpt
A collection of 38 Lactobacillus helveticus strains, isolated from a number of different artisan Italian cheeses, and 4 reference strains were studied with respect to the presence of insertion sequences and their distribution and abundance. The mobile genetic element ISLh1, that contains one open reading frame coding for a putative transposase of the IS982 family, was used for DNA fingerprinting, together with...
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