Anaerococcus marasmi sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from human gut microbiota

M L Tall; T P T Pham; S Bellali; I I Ngom; J Delerce; C I Lo; D Raoult; P-E Fournier; A Levasseur

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100655

Anaerococcus marasmi sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from human gut microbiota

New Microbes New Infect. 2020 Feb 15:35:100655. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100655. eCollection 2020 May.

Authors

M L Tall^{1

2}, T P T Pham^{1

2}, S Bellali^{1

2}, I I Ngom^{1

2}, J Delerce^{1

2}, C I Lo^{2

3}, D Raoult^{1

2}, P-E Fournier^{2

3}, A Levasseur^{1

2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Aix-Marseille Université, Microbes, Evolution, Phylogeny and Infections, IRD, APHM, Faculté de Médecine, France.
² IHU-Méditerranée Infection, France.
³ Aix-Marseille Université, UMR VITROME, IRD, SSA, APHM, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France.
⁴ Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France.

Abstract

Anaerococcus marasmi sp. nov. strain Marseille-P3557^T is a new species isolated from a stool of a Nigerian child with marasmus. The genome of Marseille-P3557^T was 2 130 060 bp long (35.4% G + C content). The closest species based on 16S ribosomal RNA sequence was Anaerococcus prevotii strain 20548, with 97.6% sequence similarity. Considering phenotypic features and comparative genome studies, we propose the strain Marseille-P3557^T as the type strain of Anaerococcus marasmi sp. nov., a new species within the genus Anaerococcus.

Keywords: Anaerococcus marasmi sp. nov.; Culturomics; Gut microbiota; Marasmus; Taxonogenomics.