Abstract
Forty-nine yeast isolates were picked from 20 samples of five different kinds of Nigerian traditional alcoholic beverages. They were identified by the conventional methods in conjunction with the use of simplified identification scheme of Deak and Beuchat. Saccharomyces cerevisiae (11 isolates) was isolated from all the beverages while Schizosaccharomyces pombe (1) and S. japonicus (1) were only isolated from palmwine. Other yeasts included Candida castellii (1), C. fructus (2), C. intermedia (1), C. krusei (3), C. tropicalis (4), Geotrichum candidum (5), Hansenula anomala (2), Kloeckera apiculata (4), Pichia membraefaciens (3), P. ohmeri (1), Saccharomyces chevalieri (1), S. uvarum (1), Kluyveromyces africanus (2), Torulaspora delbrueckii (3) and Rhodutorula grainis (3). The distribution of the species in the beverages is shown.
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