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Lactobacillus rhamnosus is a Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic lactic acid bacterium and one of the most extensively studied probiotic species. The GG strain (ATCC 53103), isolated from a healthy human intestinal tract by Gorbach and Goldin in 1983, is the single m…
The only archaeon represented in this wiki -- Methanobrevibacter smithii is the dominant methane-producing microorganism in the human gut, belonging to the domain Archaea rather than Bacteria. As a hydrogenotrophic methanogen, it converts H2 + CO2 into methane (CH4), pl…
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a unicellular budding fungus (ascomycete) ubiquitous in fermentation, brewing, bread-making, and increasingly used as a pharmaceutical probiotic (Hatoum et al. 2012). The strain S. boulardii (also called S. cerevisiae var. boulardii) is the m…