Bacterial strain and culture conditions. The bacterial strain used in
this study was L. garvieae ATCC43921 purchased from the American
Type Culture Collection (Rockville, MD, USA). Brain heart infusion
(BHI) media (broth and agar) were used to culture the bacterial strain.
The growth temperature was 25 C. The bacterial stock culture was
stored as a frozen culture at 80 C in BHI broth containing 20%
glycerol (v/v).