Romboutsia timonensis, a new species isolated from human gut

D Ricaboni; M Mailhe; S Khelaifia; D Raoult; M Million

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.04.001

Romboutsia timonensis, a new species isolated from human gut

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 Apr 13:12:6-7. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.04.001. eCollection 2016 Jul.

Authors

D Ricaboni¹, M Mailhe², S Khelaifia², D Raoult³, M Million²

Affiliations

¹ Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, CNRS (UMR 7278), IRD (198), INSERM (U1095), AMU (UM63), Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, 3rd Division of Clinical Infectious Disease, University of Milan, Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milan, Italy.
² Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, CNRS (UMR 7278), IRD (198), INSERM (U1095), AMU (UM63), Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
³ Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, CNRS (UMR 7278), IRD (198), INSERM (U1095), AMU (UM63), Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

The exploration of the human microbiome was recently revolutionized by microbial culturomics and taxonogenomics. Thanks to this approach, we report here the main characteristics of Romboutsia timonensis strain Marseille-P326, a new bacterium isolated from the right human colon by colonoscopy in a 63-year-old French man with severe anaemia with melaena.

Keywords: Culturomics; Romboutsia timonensis sp. nov.; gut; human; taxonogenomics.