'Culturomica massiliensis', a new bacterium isolated from the human gut

S Ndongo; J-C Lagier; P-E Fournier; D Raoult; S Khelaifia

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.06.010

'Culturomica massiliensis', a new bacterium isolated from the human gut

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 Jun 16:13:60-1. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.06.010. eCollection 2016 Sep.

Authors

S Ndongo¹, J-C Lagier¹, P-E Fournier¹, D Raoult², S Khelaifia¹

Affiliations

¹ Aix Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France.
² Aix Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France; Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

We report here the main characteristics of 'Culturomica massiliensis', strain Marseille-P2698(T) (CSUR P2698) a new genus isolated from the stool specimen in a 66-year-old man.

Keywords: culturomics; genomics; taxono-genomics; taxonomy; ‘Culturomica massiliensis’.