title: 'Arcobacter porcinus' sp. nov., a novelArcobacterspecies uncovered byArcobacter thereius.
abstract: Arcobacter thereiusis a species associated with human disease. A group ofA. thereiuspork strains (represented by strain LMG 24487) clustered separately from the type strain (LMG 24486T) in the 16S rRNA and multilocus phylogenetic trees.In silicoDNA-DNA hybridization and average nucleotide identity results between their genomes (93.3 and 51.1%) confirmed 'Arcobacter porcinus' (LMG 24487T) as a new species.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, IISPV, Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Figueras
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, IISPV, Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pérez-Cataluña
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, IISPV, Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Salas-Massó
authors.affiliation: Escuela de Tecnología Médica, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Levican
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, IISPV, Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain; Instituto de Bioquímica y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Collado
keywords: ANI; Arcobacter; new species; pork abortion; taxonomy