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Complete genome sequence of the dairy isolate Streptococcus macedonicus ACA-DC 198
Konstantinos Papadimitriou1, Stéphanie Ferreira, Nikolaos C Papandreou
1Laboratory of Dairy Research, Department of Food Science and Technology, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Journal of Bacteriology
|March 13, 2012
Abstract:
The species Streptococcus macedonicus is associated with the food environment, especially with fermented dairy products. Here we present the complete 2.1-Mb genome sequence of strain ACA-DC 198, which was isolated from naturally fermented Greek kasseri cheese.
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