title: Biodiversity of lactic acid bacteria in Moroccan soft white cheese (Jben).
abstract: The bacterial diversity occurring in traditional Moroccan soft white cheese, produced in eight different regions in Morocco, was studied. A total of 164 lactic acid bacteria were isolated, purified and identified by whole-cell protein fingerprinting and rep-PCR genomic fingerprinting. The majority of the strains belonged to the genera Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Leuconostoc and Enterococcus. Sixteen species were identified: Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Lactobacillus paracasei, Lactobacillus brevis, Lactobacillus buchneri, Lactococcus lactis, Lactococcus garvieae, Lactococcus raffinolactis, Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides, Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Leuconostoc citreum, Eterococcus durans, Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium, Enterococcus saccharominimus and Streptococcus sp.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Biologie Moléculaire, Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique, Laboratory of microbiology and Molecular Biology (LMBM), 52. bd Omar Ibn Khattab, BP 8027-10102 Agdal, Rabat, Morocco.
authors.forename: Mouna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ouadghiri
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amar
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vancanneyt
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Swings
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D002611:Cheese / Q000382:microbiology*; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D005516:Food Microbiology; D007778:Lactobacillus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D017045:Lactococcus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007934:Leuconostoc / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009018:Morocco; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial