Bifidobacterium mongoliense sp. nov., from airag, a traditional fermented mare's milk product from Mongolia

Equid milk for human consumption

“…A novel Bifidobacterium species, Bifidobacterium mongoliense sp. nov. has been isolated from airag (Watanabe et al, 2009) while a novel Lactobacillus casei strain, Lb. casei Zhang, is under investigation for its probiotic potential (Guo, Wang, Yan, Liu, & Zhang, 2009).…”

Subspeciation of Bifidobacterium longum by multilocus approaches and amplified fragment length polymorphism: Description of B. longum subsp. suillum subsp. nov., isolated from the faeces of piglets

“…Motility was tested in modified GAM soft agar (0.15%). Carbohydrate fermentation tests were carried out by using the API 50CHL system (bioMérieux, Marcy-l'Étoile, France) according to the manufacturer's instructions with some modification [56]. Fructose-6-phosphate phosphoketolase (F6PPK) activity was determined according to the method described by Orban and Patterson [34] with hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (0.45 mg/ml) as the detergent for cell membrane disruption.…”

Carbohydrate metabolism in Bifidobacteria

“…The phylum Actinobacteria also comprises, among others, Actinomycetaceae, propionibacteria, corynebacteria, mycobacteria and streptomyces [103,149]. Thirty-nine species have been assigned to the genus Bifidobacterium, including recent additions such as Bifidobacterium tsurumiense [91] isolated from hamster dental plaque, Bifidobacterium mongoliense isolated from airag, a traditional Mongolian fermented horse milk product [160], Bifidobacterium crudilactis extracted from French raw milk and raw milk cheeses [20], Bifidobacterium psychraerophilum, originating from pig intestine [128], and three bifidobacterial species, Bifidobacterium bombi [52], Bifidobacterium actinicoloniformis and Bifidobacterium bohemicus [51], isolated from the digestive tract of different bumblebee species (Table 1). Furthermore, it seems that many bifidobacteria are still to be discovered as suggested by various metagenomic studies [11,137].…”

“…suis ex [73] subsp. longum Child and adult intestine, vagina ex [106] B. magnum Rabbit faeces; sewage [123] B. merycicum Rumen [7] B. minimum Sewage [9] B. mongoliense Fermented mare's milk product [160] B. pseudocatenulatum Child faeces [121] B. pseudolongum [165] subsp. globosum Pig, chicken, calf and rat faeces, rumen ex [9] subsp.…”