Ltd.) (Ingham, 1999) . Serial dilution and plating were done in an anaerobic workstation (AW400TG, Electrotek Scientific Ltd., Shipley, West Yorkshire, UK). For selection of lactobacilli, 100 μl of diluent was plated on Lactobacillus selective agar (LBS) (China National Medicines Corp. Ltd.) (Ingham, 1999) , and 50 U/ml nystatin (Sangon Biotech Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China) . Agar plates were cultured in the anaerobic workstation flushed with 80% N 2 , 10% CO 2 and 10% H 2 at 37°C for 72 h. For each sample, colonies on LBS plates were counted. Colonies were selected at random and re-streaked onto LBS agar for purity. The final pure culture was cultured in LBS at 37°C for 24 h and preserved in 30% glycerol (China National Medicines Corp. Ltd.) at -80°C (Bottacini et al., 2018) .
DNA was extracted from each strain using the Rapid Bacterial Genomic DNA Isolation Kit (Sangon Biotech Co., Ltd.) according to the manufacturer's instructions. The identity of each putative