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 language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Vlaams Diergeneeskundig Tijdschrift |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 129-130 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISSN | 0303-9021 |
| Publication status | Published - 1997 |
Keywords
- B780-tropical-medicine
- Animal diseases
- Bovines
- Mastitis
- Milk
- Yeasts
- Mycology
- Identification
- Belgium
- Europe-West