Corynebacterium neomassiliense sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated in a stool sample from a healthy male pygmy

M Boxberger; I Hasni; M Bilen; B La Scola

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100644

Corynebacterium neomassiliense sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated in a stool sample from a healthy male pygmy

New Microbes New Infect. 2020 Jan 23:34:100644. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100644. eCollection 2020 Mar.

Authors

M Boxberger^{1

2}, I Hasni^{1

2}, M Bilen^{1

2}, B La Scola^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, MEФI, Marseille, France.
² IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.

Abstract

An obligate aerobic, Gram-positive, non-sporulating, rod-shaped bacterium designated Marseille P3888^T was isolated from the stool sample of a healthy male pygmy. We described its main characteristics, and sequenced and annotated its genome. The 16S rRNA analysis revealed 98.10% sequence similarity with Corynebacterium terpenotabidum, the phylogenetically closest species with standing in nomenclature. The genome had a size of 3142051 bp with a guanine + cytosine content of 66.83%. We proposed the creation of the new Corynebacterium neomassiliense sp. nov. strain Marseille-P3888^T.

Keywords: Bacteria; Corynebacterium neomassiliense; culturomics; genome; sp. nov.; species; taxono-genomics.