Lactobacillus psittaci

Lactobacillus psittaci (psit.ta‘ci. L. gen. masc. n. psittaci of the parrot, from which the organism was first isolated).

Lactobacillus psittaci produces acid from glucose, raffinose and sucrose, but not from lactose, mannitol and trehalose [107]. The genome size is 1.54 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNA is 35.6.

Isolated from a hyacinth macaw.

Thetypestrainis B 1491/99 T = CCUG 42378 T =CIP 106492 T =DSM 15354 T =JCM 11552 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZFB00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AJ272391.