A novel Kosakonia strain WCHEs120001T was recovered from the wound secretion of a patient at West China Hospital, Chengdu, PR China, in 2017. The strain was Gram-stain-negative, facultatively anaerobic, motile, and non-spore-forming. A preliminary analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that this strain was closely related to members of the genus Kosakonia. The strain was subjected to whole genome sequencing. Phylogenetic analysis based on core gene sequences of type strains of all Enterobacteriaceae species revealed that this strain belonged to the genus Kosakonia but were distinct from any previously known Kosakonia species. Both average nucleotide identity (ANI) and in silico DNA-DNA hybridisation (isDDH) values between strain WCHEs120001T and type strains of all known Kosakonia species were 82.02 to 92.37% and 25.6 to 50.9 %, respectively, which are lower than the 95 % (ANI) and 70 % (isDDH) cutoff for species delineation. The major fatty acids of the strain WCHEs120001T are C16 : 0, sum of C16:1ω7c/C16:1ω6c and C18:1ω7c, which are similar to other Kosakonia species. Genomic DNA G+C content of strain WCHEs120001T was 53.33 mol%. Strain WCHEs120001T is positive for methyl-d-glucopyranoside but does not ferment adonitol, d-arabitol, dulcitol and melibiose, which distinguishes it from all other Kosakonia species. Genotypic and phenotypic characteristics indicate that strain WCHEs120001T represents a novel species of the genus Kosakonia, for which the name Kosakonia quasisacchari sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of K. quasisacchari sp. nov. is WCHEs120001T (=GDMCC1.1570T=NCTC 14272T).
Keywords: Kosakonia; genome; secretion.