A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae
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Zheng, Jinshui
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Wittouck, Stijn
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Salvetti, Elisa
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Franz, Charles M. A. P.
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Harris, Hugh M. B.
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Mattarelli, Paola
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O’Toole, Paul W.
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Pot, Bruno
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Vandamme, Peter
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Walter, Jens
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Watanabe, Koichi
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Wuyts, Sander
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Felis, Giovanna E.
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Gänzle, Michael G.
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Lebeer, Sarah
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International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
2020
2020-04-15
70
2782
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journal article
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10.1099/ijsem.0.004107
c650e745-85a1-48ca-b29a-b1714f644bae
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Lactobacillus iners
Lactobacillus iners
(in’ers. L. masc. adj.
iners
, inactive, lazy).
Lactobacillus iners
grows on blood agar but not on MRS or Rogosa agar, reflecting a strict adaptation to the human vagina. L(+)-Lactic acid is producedfrom glucose, some strains produce acid from maltose but acid is not produced from lactose, mannitol, raffinose, ribose andsucrose [
94
]. The genome size is 1.27 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNA is 32.5.
One of the predominant species found in the human female lower genital tract; also occurs on human skin [
95
]
Thetypestrainis CCUG 28746
T
=CIP 105923
T
=DSM 13335
T
=JCM 12513
T
=LMG 18914
T
.
Genome sequence accession number: AZET00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number:
Y16329
.