“…In the majority of the studies, the LAB isolates are characterized and identified by a polyphasic approach based on phenotypic and genotypic methods, such as carbohydrate fermentation patterns using API 50CH [4,10,11,25,26], ribotyping [10], intergenic transcribed spacers-PCR/restriction fragment length polymorphism (ITS-PCR/RFLP) [12], pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) [12,26], ARDRA, rep-PCR, RAPD-PCR [7,12,14,20], multiplex-PCR [9], and 16S rRNA gene sequencing [5, 9-12, 15, 20, 26].…”