Rubeoparvulum massiliense gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterial genus isolated from the human gut of a Senegalese infant with severe acute malnutrition

M Tidjani Alou; J Rathored; J-C Lagier; S Khelaifia; C Michelle; C Sokhna; A Diallo; A B Diallo; P-E Fournier; D Raoult; S Edouard

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.11.003

Rubeoparvulum massiliense gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterial genus isolated from the human gut of a Senegalese infant with severe acute malnutrition

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 Nov 17:15:49-60. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.11.003. eCollection 2017 Jan.

Authors

M Tidjani Alou¹, J Rathored¹, J-C Lagier², S Khelaifia¹, C Michelle¹, C Sokhna³, A Diallo³, A B Diallo⁴, P-E Fournier¹, D Raoult⁵, S Edouard¹

Affiliations

¹ Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS7278, IRD198, INSERM 1095, Faculté de médecine, France.
² Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS7278, IRD198, INSERM 1095, Faculté de médecine, France; Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes IRD 198, CNRS 7278, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Campus Commun UCAD-IRD of Hann, Dakar, Senegal.
³ Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes IRD 198, CNRS 7278, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
⁴ Laboratoire de microbiologie, département de biologie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey, Niger.
⁵ Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS7278, IRD198, INSERM 1095, Faculté de médecine, France; Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

Rubeoparvulum massiliense strain mt6^T was isolated from the gut microbiota of a severely malnourished boy from Senegal and consisted of facultative anaerobic, spore-forming, nonmotile and Gram-negative rods. R. massiliense showed a 92% similarity with the 16S rRNA of Bacillus mannanilyticus. The genome of strain mt6^T is 2 843 796 bp long with a 43.75% G+C content. It contains 2735 protein-coding genes and 76 RNA genes, among which are nine rRNA genes.

Keywords: Culturomics; Rubeoparvulum massiliense; genome; gut microbiota; taxonogenomics.