Yeast counts increased from day one (24 h after salting) to the
sixth week of the ripening process. Initial counts of ewes’ cheeses,
E1 and E2, started at 104 and 105 CFU/g, respectively. These yeast
counts increased to 107 CFU/g at the third week of the ripening
process and they were maintained until the end of the sampling
procedure. Goats’ cheeses, G1 and G2, initial counts started at 104
and 105 CFU/g raising to 108 and 107 CFU/g, respectively, at the sixth
sampling week.
A total of 530 yeasts were isolated from the six samples taken
from each cheese. Table 1 shows the results from the molecular
identification using the RFLPs of 5.8S ITS rDNA and their correlation
with the result of the BLASTN sequence comparison for the D1/D2