Christensenella massiliensis, a new bacterial species isolated from the human gut

S Ndongo; S Khelaifia; P-E Fournier; D Raoult

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.04.014

Christensenella massiliensis, a new bacterial species isolated from the human gut

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 May 4:12:69-70. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.04.014. eCollection 2016 Jul.

Authors

S Ndongo¹, S Khelaifia¹, P-E Fournier¹, D Raoult²

Affiliations

¹ Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, CNRS (UMR 7278), IRD (198), INSERM (U1095), AMU (UM63), Marseille, France.
² Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, CNRS (UMR 7278), IRD (198), INSERM (U1095), AMU (UM63), Marseille, France; Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

We describe the main characteristics of Christensenella massiliensis, strain Marseille-P2438(T) (CSUR P2438), isolated from a stool specimen of a 66-year-old patient.

Keywords: Christensenella massiliensis; culturomics; gut microbiota; taxonogenomics; taxonomy.