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Acetobacter. Ellipsoid to rod-shaped (0.6 × 4 μm); occur singly or in short chains; motile or nonmotile; aerobes; oxidize ethanol…

The microbial groups important in foods consist of several species and types of bacteria, yeasts, molds, and viruses. Although some…

Microbiology is the science which includes the study of the occurrence and significance of bacteria, fungi, protozoa and algae which…

All healthy animals carry a complex microbial flora, part of which may be very specialized and adapted to growth and…

Foods, by their very nature, need to be nutritious and metabolizable and it should be expected that they will offer…

Both yeasts and molds are eukaryotic, but yeasts are unicellular, whereas molds are multicellular.5,6 Eukaryotic cells are generally much larger…

From the above discussion, it is apparent what, as a discipline, food microbiology has to offer. Before the 1970s, food…

Molds are important in food because they can grow even in conditions in which many bacteria cannot grow, such as…

Perhaps one of the most hostile environments for many micro-organisms is the atmosphere. Suspended in the air, the tiny microbial…