Identification of a novel Brevibacterium species isolated from humans and description of Brevibacterium sanguinis sp. nov

Georges Wauters; Gerhard Haase; Véronique Avesani; Jacqueline Charlier; Michèle Janssens; Johan Van Broeck; Michel Delmée

doi:10.1128/JCM.42.6.2829-2832.2004

Identification of a novel Brevibacterium species isolated from humans and description of Brevibacterium sanguinis sp. nov

J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Jun;42(6):2829-32. doi: 10.1128/JCM.42.6.2829-2832.2004.

Authors

Georges Wauters¹, Gerhard Haase, Véronique Avesani, Jacqueline Charlier, Michèle Janssens, Johan Van Broeck, Michel Delmée

Affiliation

¹ University of Louvain, Microbiology Unit, UCL/5490, Av. Hippocrate 54, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium. [email protected]

Abstract

Six coryneforms isolated from blood and dialysate fluid were phenotypically similar to Brevibacterium casei, but 16S rRNA gene sequencing and DNA-DNA hybridization indicate that they belong to a new species for which the name Brevibacterium sanguinis is proposed.

MeSH terms

Base Sequence
Brevibacterium / classification*
Brevibacterium / genetics
Brevibacterium / isolation & purification
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeny
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics

Substances

RNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Associated data

GENBANK/AJ564859
GENBANK/AJ628351
GENBANK/AJ628352