title: Klebsiella variicola, a novel species with clinical and plant-associated isolates.
abstract: A new Klebsiella species, K. variicola, is proposed on the basis of total DNA-DNA hybridization, on the monophyly observed in the phylogenetic analysis derived from the sequences of rpoB, gyrA, mdh, infB, phoE and nifH genes and on distinct phenotypic traits. The bacteria from this new species seem to be genetically isolated from K. pneumoniae strains, do not ferment adonitol and were obtained from plants (such as banana, rice, sugar cane and maize) and hospitals. The type strain is F2R9T (= ATCC BAA-830T = CFNE 2004T).
authors.affiliation: Centro de Investigación sobre Fijación de Nitrógeno, UNAM, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
authors.forename: Mónica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rosenblueth
authors.forename: Lucía
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: Jesús
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: Esperanza
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Martínez-Romero
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007709:Klebsiella / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D028521:Musa / Q000382:microbiology*; D009586:Nitrogen Fixation; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial