Polyphasic characterization of microbiota of “mastredda”, a traditional wooden tool used during the production of pdo provola dei nebrodi cheese

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• who: Gabriele Busetta and colleagues from the Each wooden table surface (, cm, ) was delimited using a sterile paper square (Area Space, VWR International PBI sr.l [, ]. Milan, Italy) to perform the biofilm collection by a non-destructive brushing method. To this purpose, the method described by Didienne et al. [9] was applied. Briefly, a sterile toothbrush was rubbed onto the wooden surface and a sterile cotton gauze was pressed onto the brushed area. Subsequently, the gauze was transferred into a sterile Durham bottle containing , mL of Ringer's solution (SigmaAldrich, Milan, Italy) where the toothbrush was previously . . .
  

   

  

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