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Bacteroides break down sugars with its saccharolytic enzymes to acetate, propionate, succinate
Macfarlane et al. 1995 In Gastrointestinal and Oesophageal Pathology, 2nd ed., pp. 249-274 [R Whitehead, editor]. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone

Usually, bacteroides strains produce acetate & butyric acids decreasing the colon pH to <6.2
Bohnhoff et al. 1964

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