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al. 2003). They are more common in fer- is used in meat starter cultures for its nitrate
mented sausages from the United States, reductase ability.
where they are intentionally added as starter The genus Staphylococcus comprises
cultures to accelerate acidification of the 41 validly described species and subspecies
meat batter. Pediococci are Gram-positive, of Gram-positive, catalase-positive cocci
coccus-shaped lactic acid bacteria, showing (Ghebremedhin et al. 2008; Bannerman
the distinctive characteristic of tetrad forma- 2003; Kwok and Chow 2003; Spergser et al.
tion via cell division in two perpendicular 2003), 10 of which contain subdivisions with
directions on a single plane. Pediococci is subspecies designations (Place et al. 2003;
a typical example of a rapid fermentative Spergser et al. 2003; Garrity et al. 2004). The
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