'Olegusella massiliensis' strain KHD7, a new bacterial genus isolated from the female genital tract

K Diop; A Diop; D Raoult; P-E Fournier; F Fenollar

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.04.008

'Olegusella massiliensis' strain KHD7, a new bacterial genus isolated from the female genital tract

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 May 4:12:56-8. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.04.008. eCollection 2016 Jul.

Authors

K Diop¹, A Diop¹, D Raoult², P-E Fournier³, F Fenollar¹

Affiliations

¹ Aix-Marseille Université, Institut hospitalo-universitaire Méditerranée-infection, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm U1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France; Campus International UCAD-IRD, Dakar, Senegal.
² Aix-Marseille Université, Institut hospitalo-universitaire Méditerranée-infection, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm U1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France; Campus International UCAD-IRD, Dakar, Senegal; Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
³ Aix-Marseille Université, Institut hospitalo-universitaire Méditerranée-infection, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm U1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France.

Abstract

We report the main characteristics of 'Olegusella massiliensis' gen. nov., sp. nov., strain KHD7 (= CSUR P2268 = DSM 101849), a new member of the Coriobacteriaceae family isolated from the vaginal flora of a patient with bacterial vaginosis.

Keywords: Culturomics; Olegusella massiliensis; emerging bacteria; taxonomy; vagina.