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Identification of Rare Bacterial Pathogens by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing and MALDI-TOF MS
Published on: July 11, 2016
Genomic description and characterization of Nigeribacterium massiliense gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the human
Mudra Khare1, Dhiraj Sinha1, Rita Zgheib1
1Aix Marseille University, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Service de Santé des Armées, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, UMR Vecteurs Infections Tropicales et Méditerranéennes. (VITROME), Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France; Institut Méditerranée-Infection, Marseille, France.
Abstract:
Strain Marseille-P1302 was isolated from the stool of a 2-year-old Nigerian boy suffering from Kwashiorkor, a form of severe acute malnutrition. The strain grows in aerobic atmosphere and bacterial cells are Gram-positive cocci ranging in diameter from 0.8 to 1 μm. Among species with standing in nomenclature, strain Marseille-P1302 exhibited a highest 16S rRNA sequence similarity of 94.97% with Brevilactibacter flavus strain VG341T, but was phylogenetically-closest to Brevilactibacter sinopodophylli strains KCTC 33808T. The draft genome of strain Marseille-P1302 was 2,934,258-bp-long with a 70.38% G + C content, and contained 2704 protein-coding genes and 55 RNAs that included 9 rRNA genes. On the basis of these data, we propose the creation of the new genus Nigeribacterium gen. nov., with strain Marseille-P1302T (= CSUR P1302 = DSM 29084) being the type strain of the new species Nigeribacterium. massiliense gen. nov., sp. nov.
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