A Few Pseudomonas Oligotypes Dominate in the Meat and Dairy Processing Environment.

ABSTRACT: The occurrence of bacteria in the food processing environments plays a key role in food contamination and development of spoilage. Species of the genus Pseudomonas are recognized as major food spoilers and the capability to actually determine spoilage can be species- as well as strain-dependent. In order to improve the taxonomic resolution of 16S rRNA gene amplicons, in this study we used oligotyping to investigate the diversity of Pseudomonas populations in meat and dairy processing environments. Sequences of the V1-V3 regions from previous studies were used, including environmental swabs and food samples from both meat and dairy processing plants. We showed that the most frequently found oligotypes belonged to Pseudomonas fragi and P. fluorescens, that the mos

SUBMITTER: Stellato G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5332365 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature