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- Title
Anaerobic Fusiform-shaped Bacteria Isolated from the Caecum of Conventional Mice.
- Authors
ROACH, SALLY; TANNOCK, G. W.
- Abstract
Twenty-four strains of anaerobic fusiform-shaped bacteria were isolated from the caecum of conventional mice. Ten of the isolates belonged to the genus Clostridium, nine to Fusobacterium and five to Bacteroides. The clostridia were put into eight biotypes on the basis of their ability to: hydrolyze mucin and esculin; produce indole and hydrogen; utilize pyruvate, and ferment arabinose, cellobiose, fructose, glucose, galactose, maltose, mannose and N-acetylglucosamine and on the acid end-products of such fermentations. The fusobacteria were assigned to six biotypes based on their ability to hydrolyze casein, mucin and starch, and to ferment arabinose, lactose, maltose and N-acetylglucosamine. Each of the bacteroides was deemed to be a separate biotype because of the differences in their ability to hydrolyze casein and starch, grow in bile medium, utilize pyruvate, and to ferment arabinose, maltose, xylan and N-acetylglucosamine. Five of the Fusobacterium isolates resembled F. russii. The remaining 19 isolates did not resemble previously described species of anaerobic bacteria.
- Publication
Journal of Applied Microbiology, 1980, Vol 48, Issue 1, p115
- ISSN
1364-5072
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2672.1980.tb05213.x