the following information is not yet verified
Taxonomy
Family: Leuconostocaceae

Natural habitats
They can be isolated from plants, occasionally from milk and milk products.

Clinical significance
They can be isolated from the female genital tract, and the gastrointestinal tract.

Infectious for humans that have surgery, antibiotic therapy, or have impared immunological systems.

the following information is not yet verified
Gram positive coccus

0.5-0.7 x 0.7-1.2 µm

occuring in pairs and chains.

Sometimes short rods with rounded ends in long chains.

Facultatief anaeroob

BA: they produce small, gray-whitish, alpha hemolytic or nonhemolytic colonies on blood agar.

Colony morphology resembles a Streptococcus.

BBAØ: growth

James Versalovic et al.(2011) Manual of Clinical Microbiology 10th Edition