| lactobacillus pantheris sp. nov., isolated from faeces of a jaguar. | two novel lactobacillus strains were isolated from the faeces of a jaguar in beijing zoo. they were gram-positive, non-spore-forming, non-motile, rod-shaped organisms that exhibited no catalase activity. the strains fermented cellobiose, d-fructose, galactose, d-glucose, lactose, maltose, d-mannose, salicin, trehalose, n-acetyl glucosamine, beta-gentiobiose and d-tagatose. d(-)-lactic acid was the exclusive product from glucose fermentation. the g+c content of the dna of strain a24-2-1t was 52.7 ... | 2002 | 12361282 |