Cross Index	Bifidobacterium
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Irregular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods
Compare	Acetobacterium Acetogenium kivui, Actinomyces Aeromicrobium erythreum Agromyces ramosus Arachnia propionica, Arcanobacterium haemolyticum, Arthrobacter, Aureobacterium, Bifidobacterium, Brachybacterium faecium, Brevibacterium, Butyrivibrio, Caseobacter polymorphus, Cellulomonas ,Clavibacter, Coriobacterium glomerans, Corynebacterium, Curtobacterium, Dermobacter hominus, Eubacterium, Exigouibacterium aurantiacum, Falcivibrio, Gardnerella, Jonsia denitrificans, Lachnospira multiparus, Microbacterium, Mobiluncus, Pimelobacter, Proprionibacterium, Rarobacter faecitabidus , Rothia dentocariosa, Rubrobacter radiotolerans, Sphaerobacter thermophilus , Terrabacter tumescens, Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus, Thermoanaerobium brockii
Contrast	Archaea
Subset

 

Morphology

Bifidobacterium

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram positive often stain irregularly with methylene blue ,non acid fast
Morphology	rods of various shapes which may have club shaped or spatulated extremites.
Motility	nonmotile
Specialized structures	non spore forming

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Bifidobacterium

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	saccharoclastic
Oxygen	obligate anaerobes
pH
Temperature
Requirements
Products	Acetic and lactic acid are produced in the ratio 3:2. Carbon dioxide, butyric and propionic acid are not produced. Glucose is degraded exclusively and characteristically by the fructose-6-phosphate shunt
Enzymes
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Bifidobacterium

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Bifidobacterium

First citation	Orla-Jensen,S.1924. La classification des bacteries lactiques. Lait 4: 468-474
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Systematatic	p 1418 V. Scardovi
Bergey's Determinative	p 573

References