Enterococcus mediterraneensis sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from the stool of a 39-year-old Pygmy

T Takakura; R Francis; H Anani; M Bilen; D Raoult; J Y Bou Khalil

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100599

Enterococcus mediterraneensis sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from the stool of a 39-year-old Pygmy

New Microbes New Infect. 2019 Sep 7:32:100599. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100599. eCollection 2019 Nov.

Authors

T Takakura¹, R Francis^{2

3}, H Anani^{2

4}, M Bilen², D Raoult^{2

3}, J Y Bou Khalil²

Affiliations

¹ Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, Analytical & Medical Solution Business Group, Ibaraki-ken, Japan.
² Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Marseille, France.
³ Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, UMR Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infections (MEPHI), Marseille, France.
⁴ Aix Marseille Université, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Service de Santé des Armées, AP-HM, UMR Vecteurs Infections Tropicales et Méditeranéennes (VITROME), Marseille, France.

Abstract

Enterococcus mediterraneensis strain Marseille-P4358^T (= CSURP4358^T) is a new species isolated from the stool of a 39-year-old male Pygmy from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Keywords: Culturomics; Enterococcus mediterraneensis; taxono-genomics.