Streptococcus mitis HMF

Kang, Heeyoung, Kim, Haneul, Bae, Jin-Woo, Lee, Soon Dong, Kim, Wonyong, Kim, Myung Kyum, Cha, Chang-Jun, Yi, Hana, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Seung Bum & Joh, Chi Nam Seong and Kiseong, 2019, A report of 38 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea within the classes Bacilli and Deinococci isolated from various sources, Journal of Species Research 8 (2), pp. 176-190 : 188

Description of Streptococcus mitis HMF 7345

Cells are Gram-stain-positive and diplococci-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth and, white-colored after incubation for three days on R2 A at 30℃. Oxidase activity is negative. Aesculin is hydrolyzed. Enzyme activity for β -galactosidase is positive. Enzyme activity for arginine dihydrolase, urease, and gelatinase is negative. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are not assimilated. Nitrate is reduced to nitrite. Indole is not produced and glucose is not fermented. Strain HMF7345 (=NIBRBAC000501157) was isolated from soil, Yongin, Republic of Korea (37°20 ʹ 18 ʺ N 127°16 ʹ 11 ʺ E) .