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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1977 April; 33(4): 745-750

Characteristics of Bacteroides isolates from the cecum of conventional mice.

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Bacteroides isolates from the cecum of conventional mice were characterized and grouped according to their ability to ferment or hydrolyze carbohydrates and other compounds believed to be present in the intestinal ecosystem. The isolates were divided into 11 groups on the basis of the fermentation of glucose, cellobiose, gum arabic and xylan (hemicelluloses), N-acetylglucosamine, and dextrin; the hydrolysis of starch and casein (proteolysis); and the production of indole. Stock cultures of B. fragilis, B. distasonis, B. ovatus, B. vulgatus, and B. ruminicola were characterized in the same way. The strains isolated most frequently from the mouse cecum resembled B. fragilis (except that arabinose was fermented) and B. thetaiotaomicron.

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