Corynebacterium dentalis sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from dental plaque of a woman with periodontitis

S Benabdelkader; M Boxberger; C I Lo; G Aboudharam; B La Scola; F Fenollar

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100625

Corynebacterium dentalis sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from dental plaque of a woman with periodontitis

New Microbes New Infect. 2019 Nov 29:33:100625. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100625. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Authors

S Benabdelkader^{1

2}, M Boxberger^{1

2}, C I Lo^{2

3}, G Aboudharam^{1

4}, B La Scola^{1

3}, F Fenollar^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Aix Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, MEФI, Marseille, France.
² IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
³ Aix Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France.
⁴ UFR Odontologie, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.

Abstract

Strain Marseille-P4122^T is a new species from the order Corynebacteriales that was isolated from the dental plaque of a woman with periodontitis. It is a facultative anaerobic Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium. Strain Marseille-P4122^T exhibited a 98.19% sequence identity with Corynebacterium suicordis strain P81/02, the phylogenetically closely related species with standing in nomenclature. The draft genome size of strain Marseille-P4122^T is 2.49 Mb with 60.1% G + C content. We propose that strain Marseille-P4122^T (=CSURP4122) is the type strain of the new species Corynebacterium dentalis sp. nov.

Keywords: Corynebacterium dentalis; bacteria; culturomics; dental plaque; taxono-genomics.