"Actinomyces ihumii," a new bacterial species isolated from the digestive microbiota of a HIV-infected patient

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 May 4:12:71-2. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.04.013. eCollection 2016 Jul.

Authors

S Ndongo¹, S Khelaifia¹, F Bittar¹, P-E Fournier¹, D Raoult²

Affiliations

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

Abstract

We report the main properties of "Actinomyces ihumii" strain SD1 (= CSUR P2006) isolated from the stool of a 50-year-old HIV-infected man.

Keywords: Actinomyces ihumii; culturomics; emerging bacteria; gut microbiota; taxonomy.