Starter culture failures due to bacteriophage attacks reduce product quality and may cause financial losses. It was the aim of this work to revise and update the Standard IDF microbiological methodology for phage detection ...

In this work, we assessed the impact of technological cell stress conditions, commonly present in industrial dairyprocesses, on the host strain-phage interactions in Leuconostoc. Adsorption and burst size of LDG ...

This review focuses on the impact of bacteriophages on the manufacture of dairy foods. Firstly, the impact of phages of lactic acid bacteria in the dairy industry, where they are considered enemies, is discussed. The sources ...

Bacteriophages can cause great economic losses due to fermentation failure in dairy plants. Hence, physical and chemical treatments of raw material and/or equipment are mandatory to maintain phage levels as low as possible. ...

Aims: To evaluate the phage diversity in the environment of a dairy industry which manufactures a product fermented with a probiotic strain of Lactobacillus paracasei.Methods and results: Twenty-two Lact. paracasei phages ...

Aims: The aim of this work was to study the adsorption step of two new temperate bacteriophages (Cb1/204 and Cb1/342) of Lactobacillus delbrueckii and to isolate phage-resistant derivatives with interesting technological ...

Fifteen samples of whey protein concentrate (WPC) were tested against 37 commercial Streptococcus thermophilus strains to detect infective bacteriophages. Seventy-three diverse phages were isolated from 12 samples, ...

Phage infections still represent a serious risk to the dairy industry, in which Streptococcus thermophilus is used in starter cultures for the manufacture of yogurt and cheese. The goal of the present study was to analyze ...

One of the main problems encountered in dairy fermentations is phage infection, which can alter the quality of fermented products or delay manufacturing processes. Several control strategies, such as sanitizers, thermal ...

Phages follow two strategies to survive: they can either infect and lyse the host cell (virulent/lytic phages) or insert its genome into the host chromosome (prophages). In either case, the first step is the adsorption of ...