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From meadows to milk to mucosa – adaptation of<i>Streptococcus</i>and<i>Lactococcus</i>species to their nutritional environments
28 Dec 2011
Abstract excerpt
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are indigenous to food-related habitats as well as associated with the mucosal surfaces of animals. The LAB family Streptococcaceae consists of the genera Lactococcus and Streptococcus. Members of the family include the industrially important species Lactococcus lactis, which has a long history safe use in the fermentative food industry, and the disease-causing streptococci...
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