Genome sequence and description of Blautia brookingsii SG772 sp. nov., a novel bacterial species isolated from human faeces

S Ghimire; S Wongkuna; R Kumar; E Nelson; J Christopher-Hennings; J Scaria

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100648

Genome sequence and description of Blautia brookingsii SG772 sp. nov., a novel bacterial species isolated from human faeces

New Microbes New Infect. 2020 Jan 7:34:100648. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100648. eCollection 2020 Mar.

Authors

S Ghimire¹, S Wongkuna¹, R Kumar¹, E Nelson¹, J Christopher-Hennings¹, J Scaria¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA.

Abstract

An anaerobic isolate SG772 belonging to the genus Blautia was isolated from a healthy human faecal sample. When compared using 16s rRNA sequence identity, SG772 showed only 94.46% similarity with its neighbour species Blautia stercoris. As strain SG772 showed both phenotypic and genomic differences from other members of the type species within the genus Blautia, we propose the designation of SG772 as novel species 'Blautia brookingsii SG772^T'.

Keywords: Blautia brookingsii SG772T; culturomics; gut microbiota; new species; taxogenomics.