Genotypic heterogeneity among Lactobacillus helveticus strains isolated from natural cheese starters.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2672.1998.853464.x

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Genotypic heterogeneity among Lactobacillus helveticus strains isolated from natural cheese starters.

Journal of applied microbiology - 1 Sept 1998

Giraffa G, De Vecchi P, Rossi P, Nicastro G, Fortina M G

Abstract excerpt

A total of 23 strains of Lactobacillus helveticus isolated from natural whey starter cultures for Italian hard cheeses and three reference strains were characterized by plasmid profiling, ribotyping and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprinting. The data showed an interesting strain...

Topics

Cheese
DNA Fingerprinting
DNA, Bacterial
Genetic Heterogeneity
Genotype
Lactobacillus
Plasmids
RNA, Bacterial
Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique

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