Isolation and cultivation of candidate phyla radiation Saccharibacteria (TM7) bacteria in coculture with bacterial hosts.

Conclusions: Human oral Saccharibacteria are obligate bacterial parasites that can be stably passaged in coculture with specific species of host bacteria. Isolating these important members of the human oral microbiome, and many natural environments, requires abandoning many of Koch's concepts and methods and embracing novel microbiological approaches. PMID: 33209205 [PubMed]
Source: Journal of Oral Microbiology - Category: Microbiology Tags: J Oral Microbiol Source Type: research