Leuconostoc lactis

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Gram stain Culture

General information
- Taxonomy
  Family: Lactobacillaceae
  
  Natural habitats
  Found in plant material, vegetables, dairy products, and starter cultures for fermentation.
  
  Clinical significance
  Less common, but implicated in sporadic bacteremia cases.
Gram stain
- 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.
Culture characteristics
- Facultatief anaeroob
  
  BA: they produce small, gray-whitish, alpha hemolytic or nonhemolytic colonies on blood agar.
  
  Colony morphology resembles a Streptococcus.
  
  BBAØ: growth
Characteristics
References
- James Versalovic et al.(2011) Manual of Clinical Microbiology 10th Edition