Microbial quality of raw milk samples collected from different villages of Coimbatore District, Tamilnadu, South India

H  Muhamed Mubarack; A  Doss; R  Dhanabalan and S  Balachander nbsp

doi:10.17485/ijst/2010/v3i1.17

Article

Microbial quality of raw milk samples collected from different villages of Coimbatore District, Tamilnadu, South India

VIEWS 656
PDF 296

Abstract
Full-Text HTML
Full-Text PDF
How to Cite

Indian Journal of Science and Technology

DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2010/v3i1.17

Year: 2010, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 61-63

Original Article

Microbial quality of raw milk samples collected from different villages of Coimbatore District, Tamilnadu, South India

H. Muhamed Mubarack, A. Doss, R. Dhanabalan and S. Balachander ^*

Department of Microbiology, RVS College of Arts and Science, Sulur, Coimbatore, Tamilnadum India.
[email protected]

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

A study was undertaken to investigate the microbiological quality of raw milk samples from some of the villages and the surrounding areas of Coimbatore district. Among the 80 raw milk samples used for the study, bacteriological identification revealed a definite dominance of Lactobacillus sp. Besides it, the other genera Staphylococcus, Escherichia, Bacillus, Salmonella and Pseudomonas were isolated on selective agar and broth.
Keywords: Milk quality, public health, microorganism, dairy, India