New Microbes and New Infections (Mar 2016)

High-quality genome sequence and description of Paenibacillus dakarensis sp. nov.

  • C.I. Lo,
  • S.A. Sankar,
  • B. Fall,
  • B. Sambe-Ba,
  • O. Mediannikov,
  • C. Robert,
  • N. Faye,
  • B. Wade,
  • D. Raoult,
  • P.-E. Fournier,
  • F. Fenollar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2016.01.011
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. C
pp. 132 – 141

Abstract

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Strain FF9T was isolated in Dakar (Senegal) from a blood-culture taken from a 16-month-old child. MALDI-TOF analysis did not allow for identification. After sequencing, strain FF9T exhibited 98.18% similarity with the 16SrRNA sequence of Paenibacillus uliginis. A polyphasic study of phenotypic and genomic analyses showed that strain FF9T is Gram variable, catalase-positive, and presents a genome of 4,569,428 bp (one chromosome but no plasmid) with 4,427genes (4,352 protein-coding and 75 RNA genes (including 3 rRNA operons). The G+C content is 45.7%. On the basis of these genomic and phenotypic data analyses, we propose the creation of Paenibacillus dakarensis strain FF9T.

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