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Sources of the adventitious microflora of a smear-ripened cheese.
Journal of applied microbiology - 1 Sept 2006
Mounier J, Goerges S, Gelsomino R, Vancanneyt M, Vandemeulebroecke K, Hoste B, Brennan N M, Scherer S, Swings J, Fitzgerald G F, Cogan T M
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AIMS: To determine the relationships between the major organisms from the cheese-making personnel and environment and the surface of a smear cheese. METHODS AND RESULTS: 360 yeast and 593 bacteria from the cheese surface, the dairy environment and the hands and arms of personnel were collected. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, repetitive sequence-based polymerase chain reaction and 16S rDNA sequencing were used...
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