JOURNAL
OF CULTURE COLLECTIONS
Volume 4, 2004-2005,
pp. 48-52
BIOCHEMICAL
CHARACTERIZATION OF LACTIC ACID BACTERIA ISOLATED FROM FISH AND PRAWN
Parvathy Seema Nair* and Puthuvallil Kumaran Surendran
Division of Microbiology, Fermentation and
Biotechnology, Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Matsyapuri. P. O.
Kochi, Kerala- 682 029, India; E-mail: pads@sancharnet.in
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were isolated from various
samples of fresh and frozen fish and prawn. Thirteen species of Lactobacillus
were identified among the 64% isolates. Among them, L. plantarum was the
dominant species. The remaining 36% isolates of Lactobacillus could not be
assigned to any species with the available taxonomic schemes.