Greco et al. [26] determined that 13.3% of these isolates was L. curvatus subsp. curvatus, Drosinos et al. [23] 4.3% and Kaban [24] 10.9%. Comi et al. [27] characterized 150 LAB with molecular methods by isolating them and identified 54 isolates (36%) as L. curvatus subsp. curvatus. In this study, L. curvatus subsp. curvatus was identified 10.9%.