“…helveticus strains and for investigating whether the findings concerning phenotypic discrimination were consistent with the genotypes of the organisms. These methods include analyses of total genomic DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP); pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE); randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) or analyses based on ribosomal RNA genes (ribotyping; PCR-ribotyping; rDNA sequence) (Dimitrov, Michaylova, & Mincova, 2005;Giraffa, De Vecchi, Rossi, Nicastro, & Fortina, 1998;Giraffa, Gatti, Rossetti, Senini, & Neviani, 2000;Lombardi et al, 2002).…”