Identification of yeasts from individual farm tank milk samples in Belgium

D Swinne, KE Deka, A Assogba, P Desmet

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Abstract

Yeasts from 70 individual milk storage tanks an farms were identified to species level. Well known pathogenic yeasts Candida kefyr (13 strains), Candida rugosa (4 strains) were isolated from tank milk, which shows that yeast potentially pathogenic for dairy cows are species commonly found as contaminants ill tank milk. Moreover, Pichia kluyveri, a species until now never isolated horn milk was found in numerous milk samples (20 strains) from tanks.
Original languageEnglish
JournalVlaams Diergeneeskundig Tijdschrift
Volume66
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)129-130
Number of pages2
ISSN0303-9021
Publication statusPublished - 1997

Keywords

  • B780-tropical-medicine
  • Animal diseases
  • Bovines
  • Mastitis
  • Milk
  • Yeasts
  • Mycology
  • Identification
  • Belgium
  • Europe-West

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