Impacts of Seasonal Housing and Teat Preparation on Raw Milk Microbiota: a High-Throughput Sequencing Study

Overview

Journal Appl Environ Microbiol

Specialties Environmental Health
Microbiology

Date 2016 Nov 6

PMID 27815277

Citations 65

Authors

Conor J Doyle

David Gleeson

Paul W OToole

Paul D Cotter

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Abstract

Importance: The composition of the raw milk microbiota is an important consideration from both a spoilage perspective and a food safety perspective and has implications for milk targeted for direct consumption and for downstream processing. Factors that influence contamination have been examined previously, primarily through the use of culture-based techniques. We describe here the extensive application of high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies to study the relationship between the milk production environment and the raw milk microbiota. The results show that the environment in which the herd was kept was the primary driver of the composition of the milk microbiota composition.

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