The taxonomic positions of species of the Lactobacillus casei group have been evaluated by sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of a 277 bp recA gene fragment. High sequence similarity between strain ATCC 393T, currently designated as the type strain of L. casei, and the type strain of Lactobacillus zeae, LMG 17315T, has been established, while L. casei ATCC 334 and Lactobacillus paracasei NCDO...

Testing of susceptibility to 13 antibiotics was performed with 90 isolates of Lactobacillus, Leuconostoc, and Pediococcus. MICs at which 90% of the isolates tested were inhibited by HMR3647, erythromycin, and ciprofloxacin were 0.015, 0.125 and 32 microg/ml, respectively. The penicillin MIC was > or = 16 microg/ml against 26.2% of the studied Lactobacillus sp. isolates and 50% of Lactobacillus ...

Lactobacillus and thrush prevention A randomised controlled trial1 has dashed the hope that eating, or putting preparations of lactobacillus into the vagina, prevents thrush. The aim of the study published in the British Medical Journal was to test whether oral or vaginal lactobacillus could prevent postantibiotic vulvovaginitis. The study recruited women aged 18–50 years with nongynaecological...

AIM To develop in vitro assays for comparing the antagonistic properties and anti-oxidative activity of probiotic Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium strains against various entero- and urinary pathogens. METHODS AND RESULTS The antagonistic activity of five probiotic lactobacilli (Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG, Lactobacillus fermentum ME-3, Lactobacillus acidophilus La5, Lactobacillus plantarum 2...

Normal-gravity (22 to 24 degrees Plato) wheat mashes were inoculated with five industrially important strains of lactobacilli at approximately 10(5), approximately 10(6), approximately 10(7), approximately 10(8), and approximately 10(9) CFU/ml in order to study the effects of the lactobacilli on yeast growth and ethanol productivity. Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus paracasei, Lactobacill...

Objective To assess the effects of lactobacillus-based medication on pain intensity scores in women with endometriosis. MaterialsAndMethods A randomized pilot placebo-controlled trial was done on eligible women who surgically and pathologically were diagnosed with endometriosis. Thirty-seven enrolled participants who have not received hormonal treatment in the last three months, randomized betw...

This report describes the draft genome sequence of Lactobacillus plantarum strain wikim18, isolated from the traditional Korean food kimchi. The reads generated by Ion Torrent PGM were assembled into 327 contigs. RAST annotation of the genome revealed 12 tRNAs and 3,316 protein-coding gene sequences.