Lactobacillus delbrueckii is a species of bacteria in the family Lactobacillaceae. It is part of the microbiota of the lower reproductive tract of women.
History
Naming The species carries the name of Max Delbrück, who lent his name to the Berlin Institute for the Fermentation Industries,H. Benninga (1990). A History of Lactic Acid Making: A Chapter in the History of Biotechnology. where L. delbrueckii and L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus were produced on an industrial scale from about 1896.Martin Dworkin, et al., eds. (2006). The Prokaryotes: Vol. 1: Symbiotic Associations, Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology. (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 BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase