| lactobacillus concavus sp. nov., isolated from the walls of a distilled spirit fermenting cellar in china. | two novel lactobacillus strains, c-5-1(t) and hb5, were isolated from the walls of a distilled spirit fermenting cellar in hebei province, china. the strains were gram-positive, non-spore-forming, non-motile curved rods and were facultatively anaerobic. they produced 5% (-)-d/95% (+)-l lactic acid exclusively from glucose fermentation, but were catalase-negative. both strains fermented n-acetylglucosamine, arbutin, salicin, cellobiose, maltose, trehalose and beta-gentiobiose. the mean dna g+c co ... | 2005 | 16166732 |