Identification of vaginal lactobacilli from asymptomatic women

Giorgi, A.; Torriani, S.; Dellaglio, F.; Bo, G.; Stola, E.; Bernuzzi, L.

Microbiologica 10(4): 377-384

1987


ISSN/ISBN: 0391-5352
PMID: 3695985
Document Number: 441
In the present work, carried out by means of phenotypic and genotypic tests, it has been demonstrated that none of the vaginal lactobacilli isolated from asymptomatic women were genetically close to Lactobacillus acidophilus ATCC 4356. Strains of homofermentative lactobacilli were identified as Lactobacillus gasseri, L. jensenii and L. crispatus, while in the heterofermentative only one strain was classified as L. fermentum. Moreover a genetically homologous group of heterofermentative lactobacilli, that could represent a new species, were evidenced.

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Identification of vaginal lactobacilli from asymptomatic women