Talk:Streptococcus thermophilus/Archive 1

Old Comments

shoudn't it be renamed to the proper name S. salivarius subsp. thermophilus and S. thermophilus should refer to this article.Knorrepoes 19:36, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Question

If S. thermophilus is related to other Streptococcus species, then in the unlikely event that it survives normal digestion, is it pathogenic? 69.251.180.224 (talk) 01:21, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Pathogenic

"When the S. thermophilus species diverged from its pathogenic relatives, it lost most of the genes acknowledged as being viral. "

Being "viral" is a misnomer. Kassorlae 20:23, 10 August 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kassorlae (talk • contribs)

Resolved

 – Since clarified. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 14:23, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Misleading image

The image shown on this page suggest that the bacteria are 1 millimeter in diameter, when they are actually about a thousand times smaller. An electron micrograph would be more appropriate. Example: http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Streptococcus_thermophilus. Nohturfft (talk) 09:47, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

I've added a descriptive caption to clarify the scale. Unfortunately I can't see any evidence the picture you linked is released under a Wikipedia-compatible license, though you could try contacting the uploader. If I remember I'll probably have a chance to take a clearer image later this year. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 14:23, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Name changed to Lacococcus

About renaming the species Streptococcus thermophilus to Lactococcus thermophilus the reference no 1 is not from a published paper or a relative book and i think that if it would be on a paper it would suggest a name change and not take it for granted. I found that in the book "The Prokaryotes" from Dworkin explains that S.thermophilus has many common characteristics with Lactococcus genus but it has even more common characteristics with Streptococcus genus and researcers showed with phylogenetic relationships that it is closer to Streptococcus than Lactococcus. I haven't found any papers suggesting the relocation of the species Streptococcus thermophilus to the genus Lactococcus so i am not sure that the name changing is correct. I am sorry if i am mistaken but i am working with Streptococcus thermophilus for the past 5 years and i am very surprised to see this being renamed. (It is my first time posting something to wikipedia so please forgive me if I wrote something that shouldn't be discussed here or posted it the wrong way or in the wrong place) TasosV (talk) 20:34, 8 July 2013 (UTC)