Publications by authors named "Lya Blais"
Bacteria are involved in numerous interactions during infection and among host-associated microbial populations. serovar Typhimurium is a foodborne pathogen of great importance as well as a model organism to study interactions within a microbial community. In this study, we found that .
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- Milk is a valuable source of vitamin B12, and ensuring a high concentration could improve its reputation as a health food.
- The study aimed to understand factors affecting B12 levels in cow milk, focusing on ruminal conditions and bedding types through two observational studies.
- Results showed that maintaining optimal ruminal conditions positively influenced milk B12 levels, while the type of bedding used for cows did not affect B12 concentrations in bulk tank milk.
Vitamin B is synthesized by prokaryotes in the rumens of dairy cows-and this has implications in human nutrition since humans rely on consumption of dairy products for vitamin B acquisition. However, the concentration of vitamin B in milk is highly variable, and there is interest in determining what causes vitamin B variability. We collected 92 temporally linked rumen, fecal, blood, and milk sample sets from Holstein cows at various stages of lactation fitted with rumen cannula and attempted to define which bacterial genera correlated well with vitamin B abundance.
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