Method for culturing Candidatus Ornithobacterium hominis

Katrina A Lawrence; Tegan M Harris; Susannah J Salter; Rick W Hall; Heidi C Smith-Vaughan; Anne B Chang; Robyn L Marsh

doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2019.03.006

Method for culturing Candidatus Ornithobacterium hominis

J Microbiol Methods. 2019 Apr:159:157-160. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2019.03.006. Epub 2019 Mar 11.

Authors

Katrina A Lawrence¹, Tegan M Harris¹, Susannah J Salter², Rick W Hall¹, Heidi C Smith-Vaughan¹, Anne B Chang³, Robyn L Marsh⁴

Affiliations

¹ Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia.
² Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.
³ Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia; Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Queensland Children's Hospital and the Centre for Children's Health Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
⁴ Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia. Electronic address: robyn.marsh@menzies.edu.au.

PMID: 30871998
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2019.03.006

Abstract

Candidatus Ornithobacterium hominis has been detected in nasopharyngeal microbiota sequence data from around the world. This report provides the first description of culture conditions for isolating this bacterium. The availability of an easily reproducible culture method is expected to facilitate deeper understanding of the clinical significance of this species.

Keywords: Candidatus Ornithobacterium hominis; Culture; Nasopharyngeal.

Publication types

Evaluation Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Colony Count, Microbial / methods*
Female
Flavobacteriaceae Infections / microbiology*
Humans
Infant
Male
Nasopharynx / microbiology
Ornithobacterium / classification
Ornithobacterium / genetics
Ornithobacterium / isolation & purification*
Phylogeny