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Limosilactobacillus caccae
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Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
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Pathogenicity
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Phylum Bacillota (Firmicutes), Class Bacilli, Order Lactobacillales, Family Lactobacillaceae, Genus Limosilactobacillus,
Limosilactobacillus caccae Lo, Dione, Mbaye, Fernandez-Mellado Gomez, Ngom, 2023.
Gram-positive rods. Non-motile. Non-spore-forming.
Colonies are white, opaque, smooth and 0.4 mm in diameter after 2 days of incubation
at 37 ºC on 5% sheep blood-enriched Columbia agar in anaerobic atmosphere. Optium
growth at 37 ºC. Anaerobic.
Isolated from the faecal flora of a 25-year-old healthy French woman and from the ileum of a sick French woman.
Resistant to vancomycin, metronidazole, colistin and teicoplanin. Susceptible to fusidic acid, imipenem, rifampicin, erythromycin,
doxycycline, gentamicin, cefoxitin, penicillin G, linezolid, doripenem, nitrofurantoin and tobramycin.
Undetermined.
Description is based mostly on API 50 CHL and API ZYM (bioMerieux) results.
Positive results for acid phosphatase, cystine arylamidase, esterase (C4), esterase lipase (C8), alpha- and beta-galactosidase,
leucine arylamidase, valine arylamidase, acid production from: arabinose, D-fructose, galactose, gentiobiose, glucose (without gas
production), glycerol, glycogen, lactose, maltose, mannose, melibiose, methyl alpha-D-mannoside, raffinose, ribose, salicin, starch,
sucrose, trehalose and xylose.
Negative results for alkaline phosphatase, catalase, alpha-chymotrypsin, alpha-fucosidase, alpha- and beta-glucosidase,
beta-glucuronidase, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, lipase (C14), alpha-mannosidase, naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase, oxidase,
trypsin, acid production from: adonitol, amygdalin, arbutin, D- and L-arabitol, cellobiose, dulcitol, erythritol, D- and L-fucose,
gluconate, 2- and 5-ketogluconate, inositol, inulin, D-lyxose, mannitol, melezitose, methyl alpha-D-glucoside, methyl
beta-D-xylopyranoside, N-acetylglucosamine, rhamnose, sorbitol, L-sorbose, D-tagatose, turanose and xylitol.
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