Pacaella massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterial species isolated from the human gut

S Ndongo; G Dubourg; P-E Fournier; D Raoult

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.12.007

Pacaella massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterial species isolated from the human gut

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 Dec 30:16:32-33. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.12.007. eCollection 2017 Mar.

Authors

S Ndongo¹, G Dubourg¹, P-E Fournier¹, D Raoult²

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.
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; Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Centre, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

Herein, we report the main characteristics of a new species named Pacaella massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., strain Marseille-P2670^T (CSUR P2670) that was isolated from the gut microbiota of a 45-year-old French patient.

Keywords: Culturomics; Pacaella massiliensis; emerging bacterium; gut microbiota; taxonomy.