Numidum massiliense gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the Bacillaceae family isolated from the human gut

M Tidjani Alou; T-T Nguyen; N Armstrong; J Rathored; S Khelaifia; D Raoult; P-E Fournier; J-C Lagier

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.05.009

Numidum massiliense gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the Bacillaceae family isolated from the human gut

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 May 17:12:76-85. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.05.009. eCollection 2016 Jul.

Authors

M Tidjani Alou¹, T-T Nguyen¹, N Armstrong¹, J Rathored¹, S Khelaifia¹, D Raoult², P-E Fournier¹, J-C Lagier¹

Affiliations

¹ Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS7278, IRD198, Inserm 1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France.
² Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS7278, IRD198, Inserm 1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France; Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

Numidum massiliense gen. nov., sp. nov., strain mt3(T) is the type strain of Numidum gen. nov., a new genus within the family Bacillaceae. This strain was isolated from the faecal flora of a Tuareg boy from Algeria. We describe this Gram-positive facultative anaerobic rod and provide its complete annotated genome sequence according to the taxonogenomics concept. Its genome is 3 755 739 bp long and contains 3453 protein-coding genes and 64 RNA genes, including eight rRNA genes.

Keywords: Bacillaceae; Culturomics; Numidum massiliense genome; gut microbiota; taxonogenomics.