M.-N. Bellon-Fontaine

TL;DR: This new method has shown that Streptococcus thermophilus B and Leuconostoc mesenteroides NCDO 523 (LM 523) display maximal affinity for an acidic solvent and a low affinity for basic solvents, which demonstrate that both bacteria are strong electron donors and very weak electron acceptors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the chemical composition of the molecules first interacting with stainless steel during the period immediately following immersion in natural seawater and elucidate the kinetics of the adsorbtion process.

TL;DR: Four different thermodynamic approaches were compared on their usefulness to predict correctly the adhesion of two fouling microorganisms from dairy processing to various solid substrata, and only approach 3 correctly predicted the observed bacterial adhesion with respect to the variousSolid substrata.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model for the building up of the BSA layer is proposed, which accounts for these data, and the authors make clear a higher reactivity of chromium towards the protein compared to stainless steel.

TL;DR: Using real‐time image analysis, it was observed that after an initially high deposition of S. thermophilus from water to glass, cells subsequently desorbed leaving a biosurfactant layer on the surface to which freshly cultured cells did not adhere, suggesting a biological anti‐adhesive coating might have great potential for the control of microbial fouling in dairy processing.