Lactobacillus concavus sp. nov., isolated from the walls of a distilled spirit fermenting cellar in China.

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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,...

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