''Lactobacillus delbrueckii'' is a species of bacteria in the family
Lactobacillaceae
The ''Lactobacillaceae'' are a family of lactic acid bacteria. It is the only family in the lactic acid bacteria which includes homofermentative and heterofermentative organisms; in the ''Lactobacillaceae,'' the pathway used for hexose fermentati ...
. It is part of the
microbiota of the lower reproductive tract of women.
History
Naming
The species carries the name of
Max Delbrück
Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (; September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981) was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical science, physical scientist ...
, who lent his name to the Berlin Institute for the Fermentation Industries, where ''L. delbrueckii'' and
''L. delbrueckii'' subsp. ''bulgaricus'' were produced on an industrial scale from about 1896. (Delbrück's Institute was located in East Berlin and around 1967 it was renamed ''Institut für Gärungsgewerbe und Biotechnologie zu Berlin (IFGB)''.
[Philippe Goujon (2001). From Biotechnology to Genomes: The Meaning of the Double Helix.])
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.
References
External links
Type strain of ''Lactobacillus delbrueckii'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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Lactobacillaceae