TABLE 2.
Cheese type | Days of ripening | Counts (CFU/25 cm2) of M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis on cheese surface
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Cheese 1 (ATCC 19698) | Cheese 2 (ATCC 19698) | Cheese 1 (Niebüll) | Cheese 2 (Niebüll) | ||
Hard | 30 | NDa | ND | ND | ND |
60 | ND | ND | 0 | 1 | |
90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Semihard | 30 | ND | ND | 2 | 4 |
60 | ND | ND | 0 | 0 | |
90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
ND, not determined.