Classification of a moderately oxygen-tolerant isolate from baby faeces as Bifidobacterium thermophilum

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Table 6 Strains used in this study

Species	Strain
Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum subsp. thermacidophilum	LMG 21395^T
Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum subsp. porcinum	LMG 21689^T
Bifidobacterium adolescentis	DSM 20083^T
Bifidobacterium bifidum	DSM 20456^T
Bifidobacterium boum	DSM 20432^T
Bifidobacterium breve	DSM 20213^T
Bifidobacterium longum subtype infantis	DSM 20088^T
Bifidobacterium longum subtype longum	DSM 20219^T
Bifidobacterium thermophilum	DSM 20210^T
Bifidobacterium longum subtype suis	DSM 20211
Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. Lactis	DSM 10140^T
Bifidobacterium	RBL67*
Bifidobacterium	RBL68*
Bifidobacterium	RBL70*
Escherichia coli	XL1-Blue‡

BCCM/LMG™: Belgian co-ordinated collections of micro-organisms/Laboratorium voor
Microbiology en microbiele Genetica, Ghent, Belgium
DSM: German Microorganism Collection, Braunschweig, Germany
*Isolated from baby faeces [22]; ‡ referred in Bullock et al. [41]

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