Lactobacillus paragasseri

Park, Eun-Hee, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Kim, Wonyong, Kim, Seung-Bum & Cha, Wan-Taek Im and Chang-Jun, 2021, Report of 20 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to the phylum Firmicutes during surveys in 2020, Journal of Species Research 10 (3), pp. 217-226 : 223

Description of Lactobacillus paragasseri BM-39

Cells are Gram-staining-positive, non-flagellated and ovoid and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, slightly convex, glistening and yellowish gray-colored after 3 days of incubation on MRS at 37℃. Negative reactions are obtained for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase and β -galactosidase in API 20NE. Does not utilize D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain BM-39 (= NIBRBAC00050 6400) was isolated from a breast milk sample, Siheung, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea (37°23′02″N, 126°51′ 32″E) .