title: Enterococcus devriesei sp. nov., associated with animal sources.
abstract: The taxonomic position of two bovine strains, LMG 13603 and LMG 14595, assigned to the species Enterococcus raffinosus on the basis of biochemical features, was reinvestigated. Both reference strains and two other isolates, 6/1 (=LMG 22829) originating from a charcoal-broiled river lamprey and IE38.4 (=LMG 22830) from the air of a poultry slaughter by-product processing plant, occupied a clearly separate position, on the basis of sequence analysis of the housekeeping gene pheS (encoding the phenylalanyl-tRNA synthase alpha-subunit), relative to the type strain of E. raffinosus and all other enterococcal species with validly published names. 16S rRNA gene sequencing of strains LMG 13603, LMG 14595, 6/1 and IE38.4 confirmed their phylogenetic position in the Enterococcus avium species group, there being more than 99 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to most members of the group, including E. raffinosus, and revealed Enterococcus pseudoavium as the closest phylogenetic relative (99.8-99.9 %). Further phenotypic and genotypic analyses using whole-cell-protein electrophoresis, (GTG)(5)-PCR fingerprinting, ribotyping and DNA-DNA hybridization experiments demonstrated that all four strains represent a novel enterococcal species, for which the name Enterococcus devriesei sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is LMG 14595T (=CCM 7299T).
authors.affiliation: Czech Collection of Microorganisms, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University Brno, Tvrdého 14, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Pavel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Švec
authors.affiliation: BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vancanneyt
authors.affiliation: Department of Food and Environmental Hygiene, University of Helsinki, Agnes Sjöbergin katu 2, 00014 Helsinki University, Finland.
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koort
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium.|BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Sabri M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Naser
authors.affiliation: BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Bart
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hoste
authors.affiliation: Department of Food and Environmental Hygiene, University of Helsinki, Agnes Sjöbergin katu 2, 00014 Helsinki University, Finland.
authors.forename: Elina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vihavainen
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vandamme
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium.|BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Swings
authors.affiliation: Department of Food and Environmental Hygiene, University of Helsinki, Agnes Sjöbergin katu 2, 00014 Helsinki University, Finland.
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Björkroth
mesh_terms: D000003:Abattoirs; D000391:Air Microbiology; D000818:Animals; D016983:Enterococcus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D010802:Phylogeny; D011200:Poultry / Q000382:microbiology*; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S