Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Phylum Bacillota (Firmicutes), Class Bacilli, Order Lactobacillales, Family Enterococcaceae, Genus Vagococcus, Vagococcus teuberi
Wullschleger et al. 2018.
No reaction with antigenic groups A, B, C, D, F and G.
Gram-positive diploid ovoid cocci with pili-like extensions on the cell surface, occurring
in pairs or short chains. Cells are elongated in the direction of the chain
Colonies-on TSYE agar plates are smooth, white, round, 1 mm in diameter, when
incubated at 37 ºC for 18 h. Alpha-haemolytic on Columbia blood agar. Limited growth
without proteolytic activity was observed in milk. Can grow at 10 and up to 41 ºC, in the
presence of 6.5% NaCl, at pH 4.7 and pH 9.3 but not at pH 9.6. Facultatively anaerobic.
Isolated from sour milk fènè produced from spontaneously fermented cow milk in Mali.
Resistant to tetracycline, oxytetracycline, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, novobiocin, ofloxacin, oxacillin and
streptomycin.
Undetermined.
- Wullschleger S, Jans C, Seifert C, Baumgartner S, Lacroix C, Bonfoh B, Stevens MJA, Meile L. Vagococcus teuberi sp. nov.,
isolated from the Malian artisanal sour milk fene. Syst Appl Microbiol 2018; 41:65-72.
Positive results for beta-glucosidase, pyroglutamic acid arylamidase, glycyl-tryptophan arylamidase, acid production from glucose
(without gas production), maltose, methyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, ribose, sucrose, and trehalose.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, alkaline phosphatase, alanyl-phenylalanine-proline arylamidase, catalase, alpha- and
beta-galactosidase, beta-glucuronidase, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, hippurate hydrolysis, beta-mannosidase, urease,
Voges-Proskauer test, acid production from L-arabinose, D-arabitol, cyclodextrin, glycogen, lactose, mannitol, melibiose, melezitose,
pullulan, raffinose, sorbitol, and tagatose.
(c) Costin Stoica