'Jeotgalicoccus saudimassiliensis' sp. nov., a new bacterial species isolated from air samples in the urban environment of Makkah, Saudi Arabia

A Papadioti; E I Azhar; F Bibi; A Jiman-Fatani; S M Aboushoushah; M Yasir; D Raoult; E Angelakis

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.12.002

'Jeotgalicoccus saudimassiliensis' sp. nov., a new bacterial species isolated from air samples in the urban environment of Makkah, Saudi Arabia

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 Dec 9:15:128-130. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.12.002. eCollection 2017 Jan.

Authors

A Papadioti¹, E I Azhar², F Bibi³, A Jiman-Fatani⁴, S M Aboushoushah³, M Yasir³, D Raoult⁵, E Angelakis¹

Affiliations

¹ Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes: URMITE CNRS-IRD 198 UMR 6236, Aix Marseille Université, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France.
² Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
³ Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes: URMITE CNRS-IRD 198 UMR 6236, Aix Marseille Université, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France; Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

We report here the main characteristics of 'Jeotgalicoccus saudimassiliensis' strain 13MG44_air^T (CSUR P1221), a new species of the Jeotgalicoccus genus that was isolated from air samples in the city environment of Makkah, Saudi Arabia, during the pilgrim period of Hajj 2012.

Keywords: Air isolates; Saudi Arabia; culturomics; ‘Jeotgalicoccus saudimassiliensis’.