Lactobacillus iners

Lactobacillus iners (in’ers. L. masc. adj. iners, inactive, lazy).

Lactobacillus iners grows on blood agar but not on MRS or Rogosa agar, reflecting a strict adaptation to the human vagina. L(+)-Lactic acid is producedfrom glucose, some strains produce acid from maltose but acid is not produced from lactose, mannitol, raffinose, ribose andsucrose [94]. The genome size is 1.27 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNA is 32.5.

One of the predominant species found in the human female lower genital tract; also occurs on human skin [95]

Thetypestrainis CCUG 28746 T =CIP 105923 T =DSM 13335 T =JCM 12513 T =LMG 18914 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZET00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: Y16329.