Selenomonas felix sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from human sputum

New Microbes New Infect. 2019 May 29:31:100567. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100567. eCollection 2019 Sep.

Authors

E Kuete¹, M D Mbogning Fonkou¹, F Mekhalif¹, H Anani², J-P Baudoin¹, D Raoult^{1

3}, J Y Bou Khalil¹

Affiliations

¹ Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, MEPHI, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
² Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
³ Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

Selenomonas felix strain Marseille-P3560^T (=CSURP3560) is a new species isolated from human sputum.

Keywords: Culturomics; Selenomonas felix; new species; sputum; taxonogenomics.