Noncontiguous finished genome sequence and description of Streptococcus timonensis sp. nov. isolated from the human stomach

D Ricaboni; M Mailhe; J-C Lagier; C Michelle; N Armstrong; F Bittar; V Vitton; A Benezech; D Raoult; M Million

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.11.013

Noncontiguous finished genome sequence and description of Streptococcus timonensis sp. nov. isolated from the human stomach

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 Nov 18:15:77-88. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.11.013. eCollection 2017 Jan.

Authors

D Ricaboni¹, M Mailhe², J-C Lagier², C Michelle², N Armstrong², F Bittar², V Vitton³, A Benezech³, D Raoult⁴, M Million²

Affiliations

¹ Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, CNRS (UMR 7278), IRD (198), INSERM (U1095), AMU (UM63), Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, 3rd Division of Clinical Infectious Disease, University of Milan, Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milan, Italy.
² Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, CNRS (UMR 7278), IRD (198), INSERM (U1095), AMU (UM63), Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
³ Service de Gastroentérologie, Hôpital Nord, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Marseille, France.
⁴ Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, CNRS (UMR 7278), IRD (198), INSERM (U1095), AMU (UM63), Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

Strain Marseille-P2915^T, a Gram-positive, facultative anaerobic and nonmotile coccus, was isolated from the gastric lavage of a patient with severe anaemia. The 16S rRNA and rpoB gene comparison exhibited a sequence identity of 98.7 and 92.6% with Streptococcus infantis strain JCM 10157^T, respectively, collocating it within the 'Streptococcus mitis' group. On the basis of phenotypic and genomic analysis, we propose the validation of the type strain Streptococcus timonensis sp. nov. Marseille-P2915T (= DSM 103349 = CSUR P2915).

Keywords: Culturomics; Streptococcus timonensis; human gut microbiota; stomach; taxonogenomics.