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In Situ Detection of Bacteria within Paraffin-embedded Tissues Using a Digoxin-labeled DNA Probe Targeting 16S rRNA
Published on: May 21, 2015
Dentiradicibacter hellwigii gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a secondary infected root canal in the human oral
Sibylle Bartsch1, Annette Wittmer1,2, Ann-Kathrin Weber1
1Center for Dental Medicine, Department of Operative Dentistry and Periodontology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Abstract:
A motile, rod-shaped and anaerobic strain WK13T was isolated from a secondary root canal infection of a human tooth. WK13T cells were Gram-stain-negative, catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. The major fatty acids (≥ 5.0%) were C16 : 0, C18 : 0, C16 : 1 ω7c, C18 : 1 ω9c and C18 : 2 ω6,9c. The DNA G+C content was 57.94 mol%. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine and lysophosphatidylcholine. There were no respiratory quinones detectable. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain WK13T belongs to the class Betaproteobacteria. WK13T showed a 93.6% and 93.5% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to the most closely related cultured species, Propionivibrio pelophilus strain DSM 12018T and Propionivibrio dicarboxylicus strain DSM 5885T, respectively. On the basis of physiological and biochemical data, the isolate is considered to represent a novel species of a new genus in the class Betaproteobacteria, for which we propose the name Dentiradicibacter hellwigii gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain is WK13T (=DSM 112713T=NCTC 14938T).
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