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
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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
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Growth Parameters Bifidobacterium
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Tropism saccharoclastic
Oxygen obligate anaerobes
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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
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Genome Bifidobacterium
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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