'Bacillus massiliglaciei', a new bacterial species isolated from Siberian permafrost

P Afouda; G Dubourg; F Cadoret; P-E Fournier; D Raoult

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.11.020

'Bacillus massiliglaciei', a new bacterial species isolated from Siberian permafrost

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 Nov 24:15:92-93. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.11.020. eCollection 2017 Jan.

Authors

P Afouda¹, G Dubourg¹, F Cadoret¹, P-E Fournier¹, D Raoult¹

Affiliation

¹ Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM 63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.

Abstract

We describe here the main characteristics of a new species isolated from Siberian permafrost dated around 10 million years. This species was named 'Bacillus massiliglaciei' strain Marseille-P2600^T (= CSUR P2600 = DSM 102861).

Keywords: Bacillus massiliglaciei; culturomics; emerging bacterium; permafrost; taxonomy.