This research was conducted in the Agriculture Faculty- Food Science
Department, Damascus University, for detecting Lactic acid bacteria isolated
from Syrian dairy products (white fresh cheese-Leben), Samples were collected
from August, 2004 to Oc
tober, 2005 from different areas in Syria. Analysis was
done for 245 bacterial isolates from 40 samples of white fresh cheese and 58
samples of yogurt (curd). Results showed that the genus Enterococcus was
dominant with a percentage of 47.52%; Pediococcus had a percentage of 26.3
%; while Lactococcus had a percentage of 15.38% with only 3.2% for
Lactobacillus.
