Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum

Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Division:	Firmicutes
Class:	Actinobacteria
Order:	Bifidobacteriales
Family:	Bifidobacteriaceae
Genus:	Bifidobacterium
Species:	B. thermacidophilum
Binomial name
Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum Dong et al. 2000

Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped species of bacteria. Strains of this species were originally isolated from an anaerobic digester used to treat wastewater from a tofu farm. The species is thermophilic and can grow at a temperature of 49.5°C.^[1]

Strains of B. thermacidophilum have been experimentally used as probiotics. It was effective in reducing damage to the gut in a mouse model of E. coli infection.^[2]

B. thermacidophilum has been divided into two subspecies: subsp. Porcinum and subsp. Thermacidophilum.^[3]

References

1. Dong, X.; Xin, Y.; Jian, W.; Liu, X.; Ling, D. (1 January 2000). "Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum sp. nov., isolated from an anaerobic digester". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 50 (1): 119–125. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-1-119.
2. Gagnon, Mélanie; Kheadr, Ehab E.; Dabour, Nassra; Richard, Denis; Fliss, Ismaïl. "Effect of Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum probiotic feeding on enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection in BALB/c mice". International Journal of Food Microbiology 111 (1): 26–33. doi:10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2006.04.041.
3. ZHU, L.; LI, W.; Dong, X. (2003). "Species identification of genus Bifidobacterium based on partial HSP60 gene sequences and proposal of Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum subsp. porcinum subsp. nov". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol 53: 1619–1623. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02617-0.

External links

• Type strain of Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum subsp. thermacidophilum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
• Type strain of Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum subsp. porcinum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase