I'm working on probiotic project. Currently I'm isolating bacteria from dairy product. Recently, I sampled a commercial yogurt product which claimed to have acidophilus, thermophilus and bifidobacteria. Using MRS broth and plated to MRS agar, the only species obtained were probbably yeast and cocci. a few plates do have lactobacillus but mixed with yeast. I have sub-cultured the bacteria 4x so far by re-streaking for single colony on MRS agar but still, I only obtained yeast mixed with cocci and bacilli. Please help me, if anyone knows on any specific media to isolate bifido and lactobacillus. I attached herewith the image of my gram staining for reference.
