Three hundreds and thirty samples of raw milk and some of the Syrian
dairy products collected during 2002-2003 from different areas of Syria, and
were used to detect the presecne of Listeria in these products.
Results indicated that mainly L. mono
cytogenes and to a lesser degree
L.innocua and L.ivanovii were found in these products. The perecentage of
violating of the Syrian standards was 4 % in raw milk, 0.0% in pasteurized
milk, 2% in white cheese, 0.5% in shinglish and 0.0% in ice cream. And it has
been deterhmined the identity of the isolated bacterial species of Listeria from
the above-mentioned products, where L. monocytogenes was dominant, and to a
lesser estent were L. innocua and L. ivanovii.
