Lactobacillus fornicalis

Lactobacillus fornicalis (for.ni.ca of the posterior fornix).

L. fornicalis produces DL-lactic acid from glucose. Acid is producedfrom ribose, fructose, galactose, glucose, mannose, maltose, cellobiose, sucrose, trehalose, melezitose, mannitol and sorbitol [83]. Themol% G+C content of DNA is 37.

Isolated from the human posterior vaginal fornix.

Thetypestrainis TV 1018 T =DSM 13171 T =ATCC 700934 T.

Genome sequenceaccession number: not availableat the time of publication.

16S rRNA gene accession number: Y18654.