Arcanobacterium ihumii sp. nov., Varibaculum vaginae sp. nov. and Tessaracoccus timonensis sp. nov., isolated from vaginal swabs from healthy Senegalese women

N S Fall; C I Lo; P-E Fournier; C Sokhna; D Raoult; F Fenollar; J-C Lagier

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100585

Arcanobacterium ihumii sp. nov., Varibaculum vaginae sp. nov. and Tessaracoccus timonensis sp. nov., isolated from vaginal swabs from healthy Senegalese women

New Microbes New Infect. 2019 Jul 3:31:100585. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100585. eCollection 2019 Sep.

Authors

N S Fall^{1

2}, C I Lo^{1

2}, P-E Fournier^{1

2}, C Sokhna^{1

2}, D Raoult^{2

3}, F Fenollar^{1

2}, J-C Lagier^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Aix Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France.
² IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
³ Aix Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, MEPHI, Marseille, France.

Abstract

Culturomics studies the microbial variety of the human microbiome by combining diversified culture conditions, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry and 16S rRNA gene identification. This study identifies three putative new bacterial species: Arcanobacterium ihumii sp. nov. strain Marseille-P5647^T, Varibaculum vaginae sp. nov. strain Marseille-P5644^T and Tessaracoccus timonensis sp. nov. strain Marseille-P5995^T, which we describe according to the concept of taxonogenomics.

Keywords: Arcanobacterium ihumii sp. nov.; Tessaracoccus timonensis sp. nov.; Varibaculum vaginae sp. nov.; culturomics; vagina.