“…Few ecological studies of AAB in vinegars have been made, and those were mainly focused on industrial vinegars, persimmon vinegar, rice vinegar, wine vinegar and traditional balsamic vinegar (Vegas et al, 2010). In the early studies, AAB isolated from vinegar fermentations were identified as Acetobacter acidophilum, (Wiame, Harpigny, & Dothey, 1959), Acetobacter polyoxogenes (Entani, Ohmori, Masai, & Suzuki, 1985), A. hansenii and A. pasteurianus (Kittelmann, Stamm, Follmann, & Triiper, 1989).…”