Lactobacillus jensenii

Lactobacillus jensenii (jen.se’ni.i. N.L. gen. n. jensenii, of Jensen, named for S. Orla-Jensen, a Danish microbiologist).

Lactobacillus jensenii produces only the D(−)-lactic enantiomer. Cellobiose, sucrose and maltose fermented; lactose, mannitol and arabinose not fermented [97]. The genome size is 1.61 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNA is 34.33.

One of the predominant species in the human female lower genital tract.

Thetypestrainis 62GT=ATCC 25258 T =CCUG 21961 T =CCUG 35572 T =CIP 69.17 T =DSM 20557 T =JCM 1146 T =JCM 15953 T =LMG 6414 T =NRRL B-4550 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYYU00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AF243176.