'''''Lactobacillus''''' је [[генус]] [[грам-позитивна бактерија|грам-позитивних]], [[факултативна анаеробност|факултативних анаеробних]] или [[микроаерофилност|микроаерофилних]], штапићастих [[бактерија]] које не формирају споре.<ref name="Makarova-2006">{{cite journal | author1 last=K|first=Makarova K | author2 = Slesarev A | author3 last3= Wolf Y|first3=Wolf| author4 = Sorokin A | author5 last5= Mirkin B|first5=Mirkin| author6 = Koonin E | author7 last7= Pavlov A|first7=Pavlov| author8 = Pavlova N | author9 last9=V|first9=Karamychev V | author10 = Polouchine N | author11 = Shakhova V | author12 = Grigoriev I | author13 = Lou Y | author14 = Rohksar D | author15 = Lucas S | author16 = Huang K | author17 = Goodstein DM | author18 = Hawkins T | author19 = Plengvidhya V | author20 = Welker D | author21 = Hughes J | author22 = Goh Y | author23 = Benson A | author24 = Baldwin K | author25 = Lee JH | author26 = Díaz-Muñiz I | author27 = Dosti B | author28 = Smeianov V | author29 = Wechter W | author30 = Barabote R | author31 = Lorca G | author32 = Altermann E | author33 = Barrangou R | author34 = Ganesan B | author35 = Xie Y | author36 = Rawsthorne H | author37 = Tamir D | author38 = Parker C | author39 = Breidt F | author40 = Broadbent J | author41 = Hutkins R | author42 = O'Sullivan D | author43 = Steele J | author44 = Unlu G | author45 = Saier M | author46 = Klaenhammer T | author47 = Richardson P | author48 = Kozyavkin S | author49 = Weimer B | author50 = Mills D | display-authors = 6 | title = Comparative genomics of the lactic acid bacteria | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 103 | issue = 42 | pages = 15611—15616 | date = октобар 2006 | pmid = 17030793 | pmc = 1622870 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.0607117103 |pages=15611—15616}}</ref>
