Parabacteroides massiliensis sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from a fresh human stool specimen

S Bellali; C I Lo; S Naud; M D M Fonkou; N Armstrong; D Raoult; P-E Fournier; F Fenollar

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100602

Parabacteroides massiliensis sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from a fresh human stool specimen

New Microbes New Infect. 2019 Sep 7:32:100602. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100602. eCollection 2019 Nov.

Authors

S Bellali^{1

2}, C I Lo^{2

3}, S Naud^{1

2}, M D M Fonkou^{1

2}, N Armstrong^{1

2}, D Raoult^{1

2}, P-E Fournier^{2

3}, F Fenollar^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Aix Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, MEФI, Marseille, France.
² IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
³ Aix Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France.

Abstract

Parabacteroides massiliensis sp. nov., strain Marseille-P2231^T (= CSURP2231 = DSM 101860) is a new species within the family Tannerellaceae. It was isolated from a stool specimen of a 25-year-old healthy woman. Its genome was 5 013 798 bp long with a 45.7 mol% G+C content. The closest species based on 16S rRNA sequence was Parabacteroides merdae strain JCM 9497^T with 98.19% sequence similarity. Considering phenotypic features and comparative genome studies, we proposed the strain Marseille-P2231^T as the type strain of Parabacteroides massiliensis sp. nov., a new species within the genus Parabacteroides.

Keywords: Bacteria; Parabacteroides massiliensis; culturomics; human gut; taxono-genomics.