(A) Chromotyping. Agarose gel electrophoresis of total DNA after digestion with BclI. (B) Ribotyping. Autoradiogram of Southern blot of BclI-digested DNA after hybridization with 32P-labelled rRNA from E. coli. Lanes 1 to 8, health food strains of Lactobacillus (C3-B, C4-B, C7-B, US2-B, US2-C, US3-B, US4, and US6-C); lane 9, L. fermentum ATCC 11739; lane 10, L. fermentum ATCC 8289; lane 11, clinical strain of Lactobacillus (vaginal isolate w); lane 12, L. acidophilus ATCC 4356T; lane 13, clinical strain of Lactobacillus (strain 36).