Abstract
Strains of lactic streptococci isolated from samples of raw milk which had developed a malty aroma were subjected to the cultural, physiological, and serological tests commonly employed in the classification of streptococci. None of the strains could be differentiated from Streptococcus lactis by these tests. Resting cells of strains which produced an organoleptically detectable malty aroma when cultured in milk were usually found to possess an active α-ketoacid decarboxylase, indicating the presence of the mechanism responsible for the characteristic aroma production. This decarboxylase activity was either weak or nonexistent in the nonmalty strains, and no activity was detected in known strains of S. lactis, S. cremoris, or S. diacetilactis. The malty strains usually produced higher acidities in milk than did the nonmalty strains, and, in most instances, they developed a granular type of growth sediment in broth, as opposed to a viscid sediment. Many of them gave weakly positive Voges-Proskauer tests in glucose broth with or without added citrate and appeared to be somewhat more resistant to nisin than the nonmalty strains.
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