title: Reclassification of Achromobacter spiritinus Vandamme et al. 2013 as a later heterotypic synonym of Achromobacter marplatensis Gomila et al. 2011.
abstract: A repeat multi-locus sequence analysis (MLSA) of concatenated nusA, eno, rpoB, gltB, lepA, nuoL and nrdA sequences of strains classified as Achromobacter marplatensis was performed. The results revealed that earlier reported sequence data of the proposed type strain were erroneous, and that the corrected concatenated sequence divergence between the A. marplatensis LMG 26219T (=CCUG 56371T) sequence type and that of strains of Achromobacter spiritinus was well below the 2.1% threshold value that delineates species of the genus Achromobacter. These results therefore demonstrated that strains which were classified as A. spiritinus should be reclassified as A. marplatensis and that the name Achromobacter spiritinus should no longer be used. An emendation of the description of Achromobacter marplatensis is warranted.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorium voor Microbiologie, Vakgroep Biochemie en microbiologie, Faculteit Wetenschappen, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Peter A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Vandamme
authors.affiliation: Laboratorium voor Microbiologie, Vakgroep Biochemie en microbiologie, Faculteit Wetenschappen, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Peeters
authors.affiliation: Laboratorium voor Microbiologie, Vakgroep Biochemie en microbiologie, Faculteit Wetenschappen, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Margo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cnockaert
authors.affiliation: Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain.
authors.forename: Margarita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gomila
authors.affiliation: Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG), Department of Infectious Diseases, Sahlgrenska Academy of the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
authors.forename: Edward R B
authors.initials: ERB
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Disease, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
authors.forename: Theodore
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Spilker
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Disease, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
authors.forename: John J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: LiPuma
mesh_terms: D042402:Achromobacter / Q000145:classification*; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial