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Oxygen Consumption by Pediococcus halophilus

“…1 ,2) 'Recently, we reported that some, strains' of soy pediococcĩ decreased the' environmental redox potential during their growth, and that the reducing activities differed greatly among the strains. 3 ) Lactic acid bacteria are generally considered to be facultative anaerobes and there is little information available on the behavior toward oxygen of the genus Pediococcus. 4 ) On the other hand, there have been several reports on oxygen consumption by somelactobacllli.…”