Table 2.

Theoretical patterns of restriction digestion of short 16S-23S intergenic spacer in different species of Bacteroides, Bifidobacterium, Carnobacterium, Enterococcus, Escherichia, Lactococcus, Leuconostoc, Oenococcus, Pediococcus, Propionibacterium, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, and Weissella

	SphI	NcoI	NheI	SspI	SfuI	EcoRV	DraI	VspI	HincII	EcoRI	AvrII	HindIII
Bact. fragilis	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-
B. longum	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	-
B. lactis	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
C. piscicola	-	-	-	+	-	-	++a	-	-	-	-	+
C. gallinarum	-	-	-	-	-	-	++	-	-	+	-	+
C. mobile	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-
Ent. faecalis	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ent. faecium	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ent. raffinosus	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+
E. coli	-	+	-	-	+	-	+	-	-	-	+	-
L. lactis	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	+	-
Leuc. mesenteroides	-	-	+	-	-	-	++	-	-	-	-	+
O. oeni	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	+
Ped. acidilacitii	+	-	+	-	-	-	+	++	-	-	-	+
Ped. parvulus	+	-	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	+
P. freudenreichii	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-
Staph. aureus	+	-	+	+	+	-	+++	+	+	+	-	++
Strep. thermophilus	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
W. confusa	-	-	-	+	-	-	+++	-	-	-	-	+
W. paramesenteroides	-	-	-	-	-	-	+++	-	-	-	-	-

^aTwo or more restriction sites found into spacer region