title: Atopobium deltae sp. nov., isolated from the blood of a patient with Fournier's gangrene.
abstract: A Gram-stain-positive, obligately anaerobic, short rod, designated strain HHRM1715(T), was isolated from the blood of a patient with Fournier's gangrene, complicated by sepsis. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain HHRM1715(T) was shown to belong to the genus Atopobium and was most closely related to Atopobium minutum (95 % similarity). The results of 16S rRNA-gene-based phylogenetic analysis, cellular fatty acid analysis and differential biochemical tests, showed that strain HHRM1715(T) represented a novel species of the genus Atopobium. We therefore describe Atopobium deltae sp. nov. with HHRM1715(T) ( = LMG 27987(T) = CCUG 65171(T)) as the type strain and propose an emended description of the genus Atopobium with regard to the DNA G+C content.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Bacteriology Research, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, Ghent 9000, Belgium.
authors.forename: Piet
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cools
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, AZ Delta, Rode-Kruisstraat 20, 8800 Roeselare, Belgium.
authors.forename: Matthijs
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oyaert
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Bacteriology Research, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, Ghent 9000, Belgium.
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vaneechoutte
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, AZ Delta, Rode-Kruisstraat 20, 8800 Roeselare, Belgium.
authors.forename: Emmanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: De Laere
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, AZ Delta, Rode-Kruisstraat 20, 8800 Roeselare, Belgium.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vervaeke
mesh_terms: D039903:Actinobacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D001482:Base Composition; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D018934:Fournier Gangrene / Q000097:blood / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005227:Fatty Acids; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S