Lactobacilli on Plants

Lactobacilli on plants.

The distribution, enumeration, and identification of lactobacilli on vegetable plants were studied in an area described geographically as being subtropical and moist. The lactobacilli were obtained, by means of quantitative enrichment procedures in Rogosa's SL broth, from 35.3% of all samples incubated at 32 C, and from 15.4% of the samples incubated at 45 C. Less than 10 lactobacilli/g of plan...

Lactobacilli-Host mutualism: "learning on the fly"

Metazoans establish with microorganisms complex interactions for their mutual benefits. Drosophila, which has already proven useful host model to study several aspects of innate immunity and host-bacteria pathogenic associations has become a powerful model to dissect the mechanisms behind mutualistic host-microbe interactions. Drosophila microbiota is composed of simple and aerotolerant bacteri...

Pustule formation by Lactobacilli on fermented vegetables.

Contemporary perspectives on vaginal pH and lactobacilli.

Ever since the pH of the vagina was found to be much more acidic than blood and interstitial fluids, a belief going back more than a century has persisted that the vagina is protected from pathogenic organisms by the high level of hydronium ions present. A corollary of this belief is that the pH of the vagina and antipathogen activity is due to colonizing Lactobacilli. Unfortunately, this dogma...

Lactobacilli and pleuropulmonary infection.

Serious infections due to lactobacilli have been rarely reported [1, 2]. The most common clinical syndromes are endocarditis and sepsis arising from localized infection. Recently we published the first case of pneumonia caused by Lactobacillus sp [3]. To date only two other cases of pleuropulmonary infection have been published [4]; an empyema and a pneumonia with a concomitant non-related lact...