Lactobacillus algidus (Dellaglioa algida)
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Phylum Bacillota (Firmicutes), Class Bacilli, Order Lactobacillales, Family Lactobacillaceae, Genus Lactobacillus [Group B lactobacilli
(facultatively heterofermentative),
Lactobacillus salivarius phylogenetic-group], Lactobacillus algidus  Kato, Sakala, Hayashidani,
Kiuchi, Kaneuchi and Ogawa 2000.

Homotypic synonym:
Dellaglioa algida (Kato et al. 2000) Zheng et al. 2020.
Gram-positive rods with rounded ends/MRS agar, coccobacilli or short rods/MRS
broth, 0.3-0.7 x 1.1-1.9 µm, occurring singly and in pairs on agar media and in rather
long chains in broth media. Nonmotile. Non-spore-forming.
Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, cream-white, and 1.0-1.5 mm in diameter after
48 h anaerobic incubation at 20 ºC on MRS agar.
Facultatively anaerobic. Psychrophilic; optimum growth temperature 15-25 ºC. Can
grow at 0-25 ºC; no growth at 30 ºC or higher.
Isolated from vacuum-packaged refrigerated beef, stored at low temperature (20 ºC). Does not resist 10 minutes at 70 ºC.
Undetermined.
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    Ludwig, F.A. Rainey, K.-H. Schleifer, W.B. Whitman. Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume 3: The Firmicutes,
    Springer, 465-511.
  2. Kato Y., Sakala R.M., Hayashidani H., Kiuchi A., Kaneuchi C. and Ogawa M., 2000. Lactobacillus algidus sp. nov., a psychrophilic
    lactic acid bacterium isolated from vacuum-packaged refrigerated beef. IJSEM 50, 1143-1149.
  3. Zheng J, Wittouck S, Salvetti E, Franz MAP et al., 2020. A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel
    genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae.
    Int J Syst Microbiol. 70, 2782-2858.
Facultatively heterofermentative (hexoses are fermented almost exclusively to lactic acid by the Embden-Meyerhof pathway or, at least
by some species, to lactic acid, acetic acid, ethanol & formic acid under glucose limitations; pentoses are  fermented to lactic acid
and acetic acid via an inducible phosphoketolase).

Positive results for aesculin hydrolysis, fermentation of: esculin, fructose, galactose, glucose (without gas production), mannose,
ribose, salicin, and trehalose.

Negative results for arginine hydrolysis, catalase, gelatin hydrolysis, H
2S production, nitrate reduction, oxidase, reaction in litmus
milk,  Voges-Proskauer, fermentation of: adonitol, dulcitol, erythritol, gluconate, glycerol, glycogen, inositol, inulin, mannitol,
melezitose, rhamnose, sorbitol, sorbose, starch, and L-xylose.

Variable results for  fermentation of: arabinose, amygdalin, cellobiose, lactose, maltose, melibiose, raffinose, and sucrose.
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