New Microbes and New Infections (May 2016)

High-quality genome sequencing and description of Dermabacter indicis sp. nov.

  • C.I. Lo,
  • S.A. Sankar,
  • C.B. Ehounoud,
  • O. Mediannikov,
  • N. Labas,
  • A. Caputo,
  • D. Raoult,
  • P.-E. Fournier,
  • F. Fenollar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2016.02.007
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. C
pp. 59 – 67

Abstract

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Strain FF11T was isolated from the wound on a researcher's finger who had been bitten by a fish (Protopterus annectens) in Senegal. Analysis by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry did not provide any identification, but the 16S rRNA sequence exhibited 97.9% identity with Dermabacter hominis. Phenotypic and genomic analyses demonstrated that strain FF11T is Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, nonmotile and non–spore forming; it exhibited a genome of 2 222 902 bp encoding 2074 protein-coding and 50 RNA genes, with a 63.2% G+C content. We consequently proposed the creation of Dermabacter indicis strain FF11T.

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