Cellulose digesting bacteria from human feces
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- 1 October 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 31 (10) , S113-S115
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/31.10.s113
Abstract
Anaerobic, gram-negative, nonsporing rod-shaped bacteria that digest wet-ball-milled filter paper have been isolated in numbers of over 108 per gram wet weight of feces, about 0.3% of total viable bacteria, from feces of two humans. Significant numbers of cellulolytic bacteria were not detected in four other humans. One of the strains is a Bacteroides sp., which only slowly digests cellulose and produces succinate, acetate, and H2 in carbohydrate fermentation.Keywords
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