TABLE 6.
Candidate probiotics identified based on percentage similarity of the 16s rRNA sequence to those available in the GenBank database.
| Accession Number | Name | Similarity (%) | Strains |
| ST 80 | 84.44% | Enterococcus faecium | MT815471 |
| SA 151 | 90.43% | Lactobacillus fermentum | MN128866 |
| SA 135 | 98.30% | Lactobacillus fermentum | MN475882 |
| SA 12 | 98.65% | Lactobacillus fermentum | MN475960 |
| SA 139 | 98.93% | Lactobacillus fermentum | MN128688 |
| ST 13 | 98.97% | Enterococcus faecium | MN475959 |
| SA 109 | 99.00% | Lactobacillus fermentum | MN475903 |
| ST 172 | 99.04% | Enterococcus faecium | MN128647 |
| SA 171 | 99.15% | Lactobacillus fermentum | MN475879 |
| SA 110 | 99.20% | Lactobacillus fermentum | MN475967 |
| ST 179 | 99.35% | Enterococcus hirae | MN147877 |
| SA 16 | 99.43% | Lactobacillus fermentum | MN475920 |
| ST 126 | 99.71% | Enterococcus faecium | MN148088 |
| ST 67 | 99.78% | Enterococcus faecium | MN475904 |