' Bittarella massiliensis' gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated by culturomics from the gut of a healthy 28-year-old man

G A Durand; P-E Fournier; D Raoult; S Edouard

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.12.014

' Bittarella massiliensis' gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated by culturomics from the gut of a healthy 28-year-old man

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 Dec 19:16:28-29. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.12.014. eCollection 2017 Mar.

Authors

G A Durand¹, P-E Fournier¹, D Raoult², S Edouard¹

Affiliations

¹ Aix-Marseille Université, Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM U1095, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
² Aix-Marseille Université, Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM U1095, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France; Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Centre, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

We report here the main features of the proposed new bacterial genus Bittarella. The type strain 'Bittarella massiliensis' GD6^T (CSUR P2149) was isolated from a stool sample from a healthy French man.

Keywords: Anaerobe; culturomics; gut microbiota; taxono-genomics; ‘Bittarella massiliensis’ gen. nov., sp. nov..