Designation and Description of the Type Strain of Lactobacillus casei subsp. alactosus Rogosa et al.

In 1953 Rogosa et al. described and named a new subspecies, Lactobacillus casei subsp. alactosus. However, they did not designate the type strain for this subspecies. Therefore strain OC 17 of Rogosa et al. (=ATCC 27216), one of the strains on which the original description was based, is here described and designated as the type strain of L. casei subsp. alactosus.