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The genus Enterococcus

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The Genera of Lactic Acid Bacteria

Part of the book series: The Lactic Acid Bacteria ((LAAB,volume 2))

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The history of the enterococci starts in 1899 with the description by Thiercelin of a new Gram-positive diplococcus, which was later included in the new genus Enterococcus with the type species Enterococcus proteiformis (Thiercelin and Jouhaud, 1903). In 1906, however, Andrewes and Horder renamed Thiercelin’s ‘entérocoque’ as Streptococcus faecalis based on its ability to form short or long chains. Because of these early links, the history of the enterococci cannot be considered separately from that of the genus Streptococcus.

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Devriese, L.A., Pot, B. (1995). The genus Enterococcus . In: Wood, B.J.B., Holzapfel, W.H. (eds) The Genera of Lactic Acid Bacteria. The Lactic Acid Bacteria, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5817-0_10

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