Bacteriophages in Dairy Processing

Contents: Preface; Phages of lactic acid bacteria: discovery & classification; Bacteriophage adaptation, with particular attention to issues of phage host range; Bacteriophages in dairy plants; Ecological aspects of phage contamination in natural whey & milk starters; Infective cycle of dairy bacteriophages; Lysogeny in probiotic lactobacilli; Phage resistance in Lactic Acid Bacteria; Biocides for dairy bacteriophage inactivation; Thermal resistance of bacteriophages in the dairy industry; Non-thermal technologies: pulsed electric field, high hydrostatic pressure & high pressure homogenization. Application on virus inactivation; Detection & quantification of dairy bacteriophages; Plasmid transduction & site-specific systems derived from lactic acid bacteria phages; Bacteriophages as biocontrol agents in dairy processing; Index.