[The spectrum of S. mutans OMZ 176 products from different mono- and disaccharides]

S. mutans OMZ 176 produced from mono-, disaccharides and hexitols in microbiological culture up to the log. growth phase different amounts of acid. Lactate was the gas chromatographically analyzed prevailing end product. Microbial suspensions of the same living mass prepared from the cultures produced homofermentatively lactate from glucose and sucrose whereas all other substrates (galactose, lactose, sorbitol, mannitol) were turned over partial heterofermentatively.