Survival of thermophilic spore-forming bacteria in a 90+ year old milk powder from Ernest Shackelton's Cape Royds Hut in Antarctica. Thermophile Research Unit

• Main Authors: Ron S Ronimus, Andreas Rueckert, Hugh W Morgan
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Bacillus licheniformis; Bacillus subtilis; RAPD-PCR; thermophilic; Anoxybacillus flavithermus; Geobacillus stearothermophilus; Milk powder; Antarctica. Due; Cape Royds; New Zealand; Royds; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.524.7682; http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/959/Morgan thermophilic.pdf;jsessionid=559248CE352AD6000677B28EE9754008?sequence=1

produced in New Zealand by a roller drying process in the first factory in the world dedicated to this process. Thermophilic bacilli are the dominant contaminants of modern spray-dried milk powders and the 1907 milk powder allows a comparison to be made of contaminating strains in roller-dried and s...