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Acta Pathol Microbiol Immunol Scand B. 1986 Oct;94(5):293-300. doi: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1986.tb03056.x.

Isolation and characterization of a mucin-degrading strain of Peptostreptococcus from rat intestinal tract.

Acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica. Section B, Microbiology

B Carlstedt-Duke, T Midtvedt, C E Nord, B E Gustafsson

PMID: 3788570 DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1986.tb03056.x

Abstract

A mucin-degrading microorganism was isolated from the intestinal tract by serial sectioning from the serosal side of the caecum wall from a conventional rat. The ability of degrading the intestinal water-soluble mucin was present both in vivo after monocontamination of germ-free rats and in vitro, when adding the microbe to Mucin medium. The morphology, Gram-positive cocci single or in short chains and the very weak biochemical activities allow us to place this strain in the species Peptostreptococcus micros.

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