The genus Streptococcus includes gram-positive bacteria (cocci)
Macfarlane et al. 1995 In Gastrointestinal and Oesophageal Pathology, 2nd ed., pp. 249-274 [R Whitehead, editor]. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone
The bacteria are primarily carbohydrate and Amino Acid Fermentation bacteria and produce the SCFAs acetate, and lactate
Macfarlane et al. 1995 In Gastrointestinal and Oesophageal Pathology, 2nd ed., pp. 249-274 [R Whitehead, editor]. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone
The genus includes species of psychobiotic bacteria
Sharma et al. 2021d Current Microbiology 78: 449–463
It produces serotonin as secondary product
Bermúdez-Humarán et al. 2019 Nutrients 11: 890
see also:
Oral biofilms
