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Molecular ecology of Streptococcus thermophilus bacteriophage infections in a cheese factory.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Aug 1997
Bruttin A, Desiere F, d'Amico N, Guérin J P, Sidoti J, Huni B, Lucchini S, Brüssow H
Abstract excerpt
A mozzarella cheese factory using an undefined, milk-derived Streptococcus thermophilus starter system was monitored longitudinally for 2 years to determine whether the diversity of the resident bacteriophage population arose from environmental sources or from genetic changes in the resident phage in the factory. The two hypotheses led to different predictions about the genetic diversity of the phages. With...
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