title: High-quality draft genome sequence and description of Haemophilus massiliensis sp. nov.
abstract: Strain FF7(T) was isolated from the peritoneal fluid of a 44-year-old woman who suffered from pelvic peritonitis. This strain exhibited a 16S rRNA sequence similarity of 94.8 % 16S rRNA sequence identity with Haemophilus parasuis, the phylogenetically closest species with a name with standing in nomenclature and a poor MALDI-TOF MS score (1.32 to 1.56) that does not allow any reliable identification. Using a polyphasic study made of phenotypic and genomic analyses, strain FF7(T) was a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic rod and member of the family Pasteurellaceae. It exhibited a genome of 2,442,548 bp long genome (one chromosome but no plasmid) contains 2,319 protein-coding and 67 RNA genes, including 6 rRNA operons. On the basis of these data, we propose the creation of Haemophilus massiliensis sp. nov. with strain FF7(T) (= CSUR P859 = DSM 28247) as the type strain.
authors.affiliation: Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm U1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France ; Campus international UCAD-IRD, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Cheikh Ibrahima
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Lo
authors.affiliation: Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm U1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Senthil Alias
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Sankar
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Principal, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Bécaye
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fall
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Principal, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Bissoume
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sambe-Ba
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Principal, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Silman
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Diawara
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Principal, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Mamadou Wague
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Gueye
authors.affiliation: Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm U1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France ; Campus international UCAD-IRD, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Oleg
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Mediannikov
authors.affiliation: Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm U1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blanc-Tailleur
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Principal, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Boubacar
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wade
authors.affiliation: Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm U1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France ; Campus international UCAD-IRD, Dakar, Senegal ; Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Raoult
authors.affiliation: Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm U1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Pierre-Edouard
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Fournier
authors.affiliation: Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm U1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France ; Campus international UCAD-IRD, Dakar, Senegal.
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fenollar
keywords: Culturomics; Genome; Haemophilus massiliensis; Taxono-genomics