Here, we review what is known about the microorganisms present in raw milk, including milk
from cows, sheep, goats and humans. Milk, due to its high nutritional content, can support a …

Various body sites of vertebrates provide stable and nutrient-rich ecosystems for a diverse
range of commensal, opportunistic, and pathogenic microorganisms to thrive. The collective …

The development of powerful sequencing techniques has allowed, albeit with some biases,
the identification and inventory of complex microbial communities that inhabit different body …

In pasture-based systems, changes in dairy herd habitat due to seasonality results in the
exposure of animals to different environmental niches. These niches contain distinct …

Raw bovine milk is highly nutritious as well as pH-neutral, providing the ideal conditions for
microbial growth. The microbiota of raw milk is diverse and originates from several sources …

Mastitis is a mammary gland inflammatory disease often due to bacterial infections. Like
many other infections, it used to be considered as a host-pathogen interaction driven by host …

Since phenotypic methods to identify coagulase negative staphylococci (CNS) from the milk
of ruminants often yield unreliable results, methods for molecular identification based on …

Explorations of how the complex microbial communities that inhabit different body sites
might contribute to health and disease have prompted research on the ways the harmonious …

Cow's milk is currently the most consumed product worldwide. However, due to various
direct and indirect contamination sources, different chemical and microbiological …

The microbial composition of raw and pasteurized milk is assessed on a daily basis.
However, many such tests are culture-dependent, and, thus, bacteria that are present at …