Bifidobacterium species
© Frédéric
Krzewinski, Phd Thesis, Université des Sciences et
Techniques de Lille (France), No 1940, January 22, 1997
Françoise Gavini, Revision, November 14, 2001
Human origin
 | B. adolescentis (Reuter, 1963); adult faeces |
| B. angulatum (Scardovi and Crociani, 1974); adult faeces |
| B. bifidum (Orla-jensen, 1924); child and adult faeces, vagina |
| B. breve (Reuter, 1963) syn : B. parvolulorum; child faeces, vagina |
| B. catenulatum (Scardovi and Crociani, 1974); child and adult faeces, vagina |
| B. denticolens (Crociani et al., 1996); buccal cavity |
| B. dentium (Scardovi and Crociani, 1974); buccal cavity, adult faeces |
| B. gallicum (Lauer, 1990); adult faeces |
| B. infantis (Reuter, 1963) syn : B. liberorum and B. lactentis; child faeces, vagina |
| B. inopinatum (crociani et al., 1996); buccal cavity |
| B. longum (Reuter, 1963); child and adult faeces and vagina |
| B. pseudocatenulatum (Scardovi et al., 1979); child faeces |
Environnemental and food origins
| B. lactis (Meile et al. 1997); fermented milk (Subjective synonym of B. animalis; Cay et al., 2000) |
| B. minimum (Scardovi and Trovatelli, 1974); sewage |
| B. subtile (Scardovi and Trovatelli, 1974); sewage |
| B. thermacidophilum (Dong et al. 2000); anaerobic digester |
Animal origin
| B. animalis (Mitsuoka, 1969); rat, chicken, rabbit and calf faeces |
| B. asteroides (Scardovi and Trovatelli, 1969); bees |
| B. boum (Scardovi et al., 1979); rumen, piglet faeces |
| B. choerinum (Scardovi et al., 1979); piglet faeces |
| B. coryneforme (Scardovi and Trovatelli,1969); bees |
| B. cuniculi (Scardovi et al., 1979); rabbit faeces |
| B. gallinarum (Watabe et al., 1983); chicken faeces |
| B. indicum (Scardovi and Trovatelli, 1969); bees |
| B. magnum (Scardovi and Zani, 1974); rabbit faeces |
| B. merycicum (Biavati and Mattarelli, 1991); rumen |
| B. pseudolongum subsp. pseudolongum (Mitsuoka, 1969); piglet, chicken, calf and rat faeces, rumen |
| B. pseudolongum subsp. globosum (Scardovi et al., 1969); piglet, chicken, calf and rat faeces, rumen |
| B. pullorum (Trovatelli et al. 1974); chicken faeces |
| B. ruminantium (Biavati and Mattarelli, 1991); rumen |
| B. saeculare (Biavati et al., 1991); rabbit faeces |
| B. suis (Matteuzzi et al. 1971); piglet faeces |
| B. thermophilum (Mitsuoka, 1969) syn B. ruminale; piglet, chicken and calf faeces, rumen |
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