Lactobacillus delbrueckii

Lactobacillus delbrueckii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Firmicutes
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Lactobacillales
Family:	Lactobacillaceae
Genus:	Lactobacillus
Species:	L. delbrueckii
Subspecies:	Subspecies include: L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis
Binomial name
Lactobacillus delbrueckii

Lactobacillus delbrueckii is a species of bacteria in the family Lactobacillaceae. It is part of the microbiota of the lower reproductive tract of women

History

Naming

The species carries the name of Max Delbrück, who lent his name to the Berlin Institute for the Fermentation Industries,^[1] where L. delbrueckii and L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus were produced on an industrial scale from about 1896.^[2] (Delbrück's Institute was located in East Berlin and around 1967 it was renamed Institut für Gärungsgewerbe und Biotechnologie zu Berlin (IFGB).^[3])

Subspecies

A paper published in 1983 by Weiss, Schillinger, and Kandler, described the high degree of shared identity between L. delbrueckii 's subspecies, which had previously been considered separate species.^[4]

References

1. H. Benninga (1990). A History of Lactic Acid Making: A Chapter in the History of Biotechnology.
2. Martin Dworkin, et al., eds. (2006). The Prokaryotes: Vol. 1: Symbiotic Associations, Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology.
3. Philippe Goujon (2001). From Biotechnology to Genomes: The Meaning of the Double Helix.
4. Weiss, N; Schillinger, U; Kandler, O (1983). "Lactobacillus lactis, Lactobacillus leichmannii and Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Subjective Synonyms of Lactobacillus delbrueckii, and Description of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis comb. nov. and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus comb. nov.". Systematic and applied microbiology 4 (4): 556. PMID 23194812.