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The Cultivation, Growth, and Viability of Lactic Acid Bacteria: A Quality Control Perspective
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Screening of lactic acid bacteria for reducing power using a tetrazolium salt reduction method on milk agar
Damien Michelon1, Sybille Tachon, Bruno Ebel
1UMR A 02.102 Unité Procédés Alimentaires et Microbiologiques, AgroSup Dijon-Université de Bourgogne, 1-esplanade Erasme, F-21000 Dijon, France.
Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering
|October 16, 2012
Abstract:
Reducing activity is a physiological property of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) of technological importance. We developed a solid medium with tetrazolium dyes enabling weakly and strongly reducing LAB to be discriminated. It was used to quantify populations in a mixed culture (spreading method) and screen strains (spot method).

