Lactobacillus iners

Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O’Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4), pp. 2782-2858 : 2797

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 produced from glucose, some strains produce acid from maltose but acid is not produced from lactose, mannitol, raffinose, ribose and sucrose [ 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]

The type strain is 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 .