Before the 1960s, Bifidobacterium species were collectively referred to as `Lactobacillus bifidus`. ==History== In 1899, Henry Tissier, a French pediatrician at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, isolated a bacterium characterised by a Y-shaped morphology (`bifid`) in the intestinal flora of breast-fed infants and named it `bifidus`. In 1907, E...
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A rod-shaped, gram-positive, non-acid-fast, non-spore-forming, non-motile bacterium that is a genus of the family actinomycetaceae. It inhabits the intestines and feces of humans as well as the human vagina. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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(bi″fid-o-bak-tēr´e-әm) a genus of gram-positive, anaerobic bacteria, commonly occurring in the feces.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: bī′fī-dō-bak-tēr′ē-ŭm Definitions: 1. A genus of anaerobic bacteria (family Actinomycetaceae) containing gram-positive rods of highly variable appearance; freshly isolated strains characteristically show true and false branching, with bifurcated V and Y forms, uniform or branched, ...
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