TY - JOUR AU - Kačániová, Miroslava AU - Nagyová, Ľudmila AU - Štefániková, Jana AU - Felsöciová, Soňa AU - Godočí­ková, Lucia AU - Haščí­k, Peter AU - Horská, Elena AU - Kunová, Simona PY - 2020/02/27 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The characteristic of sheep cheese “Bryndza” from different regions of Slovakia based on microbiological quality JF - Potravinarstvo Slovak Journal of Food Sciences JA - Potr. S. J. F. Sci. VL - 14 IS - SE - Articles DO - 10.5219/1239 UR - https://potravinarstvo.com/journal1/index.php/potravinarstvo/article/view/1239 SP - 69-75 AB - <p>The aim of our study was to describe microorganisms which occur in the traditional Slovak cheese „Bryndza“. There were a total of 60 cheese samples collected from ten different farms during May 2019. The microbiota studies included the total bacterial count, coliforms, enterococci, lactic acid bacteria, yeasts and microscopic fungi. The total bacterial counts were cultivated on plate count agar at 30 °C in aerobic conditions, lactic acid bacteria on MRS at 37 °C in anaerobic conditions, coliform on VRBL and VRBG at 37 °C in aerobic condition, yeasts and microscopic fungi on MEA at 25 °C under aerobic condition. Gram-positive, Gram-negative and yeasts isolates were identified with MALDI-TOF MS Biotyper. Totally, <br />a number of 1175 isolates of G<sup>-</sup>, G<sup>+ </sup>and yeast were identified with score higher than 2 and moulds. <em>Escherichia coli </em>and <em>Stenotrophomonas maltophilia</em> were the most frequently identified species of Gram-negative and <em>Leuconostoc mesenteroides ssp. mesenteroides </em>and<em> Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis</em> from Gram-positive bacteria. <em>Yarrowia lipolitica</em> and <em>Kluyveromyces lactis </em>were the most distributed yeasts. Lactic acid bacteria group was represented by <em>Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Leuconostoc </em>and<em> Pediococcus. </em>The most abundant genera of lactic acid bacteria were <em>Lactobacillus</em> with 11 species. This study describes the indigenous microbiota of the traditional ewe's milk cheeses from Slovakia.</p> ER -