'Peptoniphilus vaginalis' sp. nov., a new species isolated from human female genital tract

K Diop; O Mediannikov; D Raoult; F Bretelle; F Fenollar

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.06.008

'Peptoniphilus vaginalis' sp. nov., a new species isolated from human female genital tract

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 Jun 15:13:65-6. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.06.008. eCollection 2016 Sep.

Authors

K Diop¹, O Mediannikov¹, D Raoult², F Bretelle³, 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 Centre, 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; Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Gynépole, Hôpital Nord, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.

Abstract

We relate here the main characteristics of 'Peptoniphilus vaginalis', strain KHD2 (= CSUR P0125 = DSM 101742), a new member of the Peptoniphilus genus, cultivated from a vaginal sample of a woman with bacterial vaginosis.

Keywords: bacterial vaginosis; culturomics; taxonomy; vaginal flora; ‘Peptoniphilus vaginalis’.