title: Stenotrophomonas africana sp. nov., an opportunistic human pathogen in Africa.
abstract: A gram-negative bacterium was isolated from a cerebrospinal fluid sample from an HIV-seropositive Rwandan refugee with primary meningoencephalitis. This Marseille-Goma sample B isolate, strain MGBT (T = type strain), was found to exhibit evolutionary homology with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, as determined by a 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, and this finding was reflected by similar phenotypic traits. MGBT could, however, be distinguished from the S. maltophilia type strain by using a number of biochemical and physiological tests, and a genotypic analysis of the two strains in which DNA homology was used revealed only 35% homology between them. Furthermore, the antibiotic susceptibility of MGBT was restricted to netilmicin, ciprofloxacin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and colimycin. On the basis of these results we propose that MGBT is a representative of a new species in the genus Stenotrophomonas, Stenotrophomonas africana.
authors.affiliation: Unité des Rickettsies CNRS EP J0054, Faculté de Médicine, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Drancourt
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bollet
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Raoult
mesh_terms: D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D003470:Culture Media / Q000378:metabolism; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000032:analysis; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014974:Xanthomonas / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005227:Fatty Acids; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S