Christensenella timonensis, a new bacterial species isolated from the human gut

Abstract

We propose a new species, Christensenella timonensis, strain Marseille-P2437T (CSUR P2437T), which was isolated from gut microbiota of a 66-year-old patient as a part of culturomics study. C. timonensis represents the second species isolated within the Christensenella genus.

Keywords

• Christensenella timonensis
• culturomics
• emerging bacterium
• gut microbiota
• taxonomy