DESCRIPTIONOF LIMOSILACTOBACILLUS GASTRICUS COMB. NOV.

Limosilactobacillus gastricus (gas’tri.cus. N.L. masc. adj. gastricus from Gr. adj. gastrikos of the stomach).

Basonym: Lactobacillus gastricus Roos et al. 2005, 80 VP Acid tolerant, anaerobic and thermophilic organisms [98]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.85 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 41.6.

Isolated from abiopsy of ahuman stomach, and from human milk.

Thetypestrainis Kx156A7 T = LMG 22113 T = DSM 16045 T =CCUG 48454 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZFN00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AY253658.