Rapid Identification, Differentiation, and Proposed New Taxonomic Classification of Bifidobacterium lactis
Open Access
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 68 (12) , 6429-6434
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.68.12.6429-6434.2002
Abstract
Identification of Bifidobacterium lactis and Bifidobacterium animalis is problematic because of phenotypic and genetic homogeneities and has raised the question of whether they belong to one unique taxon. Analysis of the 16S-23S internally transcribed spacer region of B. lactis DSM10140 T , B. animalis ATCC 25527 T , and six potential B. lactis strains suggested two distinct clusters. Two specific 16S-23S spacer rRNA gene-targeted primers have been developed for specific detection of B. animalis . All of the molecular techniques used ( B. lactis or B. animalis PCR primers, enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus PCR) demonstrated that B. lactis and B. animalis form two main groups and suggest a revision of the strains assigned to B. animalis . We propose that B. lactis should be separated from B. animalis at the subspecies level.Keywords
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