Lactobacillus acidophilus (CIP 103601, A18)

Name: Lactobacillus acidophilus (CIP 103601, A18)
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BacDive ID 137247

Type strain

Strain Designation A18

Culture col. no. CIP 103601 A18

NCBI tax ID(s) 1579

Special Collections CIP

History CIP <- 1992, F. Gasser, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain VPI 11695, Lactobacillus acidophilus, group A1 <- M.E. Sharpe, Reading, UK: strain A18

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Lactobacillus acidophilus A18 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium of the family Lactobacillaceae.

Gram-positive rod-shaped facultative anaerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 68989

CIP 103601

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:51

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Lactobacillales

Family Lactobacillaceae

Genus Lactobacillus

Species Lactobacillus acidophilus

Full scientific name Lactobacillus acidophilus (Moro 1900) Hansen and Mocquot 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (1)

"Bacillus acidophilus"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Lactobacillus acidophilus** (35)	Type strain
6404	L. acidophilus L917, Scav, DSM 20079, ATCC 4356, NCDO 1748, ... (type strain)
6403	L. acidophilus A 16, DSM 9126, ATCC 13651, NCDO 1360
6405	L. acidophilus DSM 20242, JCM 2124
135119	L. acidophilus CIP 104455
135293	L. acidophilus R-1-1, CIP 103596, ATCC 4355, JCM 1021, KCTC ...
135306	L. acidophilus 4B, CIP 103597, ATCC 832, NCDO 1, NCTC 1723, ...
135307	L. acidophilus 43, CIP 103598, ATCC 314, JCM 2121
136312	L. acidophilus CIP 104457, ATCC 11975, NCDO 2, NCTC 1899, ...
137096	L. acidophilus CIP 103600, VPI 11473
137642	L. acidophilus Pak, CIP 103595, ATCC 4357, NCDO 1697, NCIMB ...
137667	L. acidophilus 65 AC, CIP 104463
137731	L. acidophilus 184.85, CIP 101490
137879	L. acidophilus 174-86, CIP 102104
137884	L. acidophilus 219-86, CIP 102108
138689	L. acidophilus CIP 102079
141878	L. acidophilus CCUG 8032
142532	L. acidophilus CCUG 12853, LMG 8151
145069	L. acidophilus CCUG 27599
145073	L. acidophilus CCUG 27603
145405	L. acidophilus CCUG 28373
145772	L. acidophilus CCUG 29549 B
146144	L. acidophilus CCUG 30451
146219	L. acidophilus CCUG 30632
147334	L. acidophilus CCUG 33386 A
147807	L. acidophilus CCUG 34264
149472	L. acidophilus CCUG 37804
160902	L. acidophilus JCM 1028, KCTC 3145, LMG 18178
160907	L. acidophilus JCM 1033, KCTC 3150
160908	L. acidophilus JCM 1034, KCTC 3151
160915	L. acidophilus JCM 1035, KCTC 3152
161124	L. acidophilus JCM 11047
161209	L. acidophilus JCM 1229, KCTC 3168
165573	L. acidophilus JCM 7711
170959	L. acidophilus 61N, CRBIP24.117
170960	L. acidophilus A31, CRBIP24.142

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
37146	positive	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
37146	MEDIUM 40- for Lactobacillus and Leuconostoc		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Man Rogosa Sharp agar (68.000 g)
37146	CIP Medium 40			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
37146	positive	growth	37
37146	positive	growth	30-45
37146	negative	growth	10

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

37146

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
37146	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	respiration

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	Metabolite	Is sensitive	Is resistant
37146	0129 (2,4-Diamino-6,7-di-iso-propylpteridine phosphate)

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
37146	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
37146	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
37146	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
37146	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
37146	oxidase	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
37146	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#37146	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 103601
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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