Paenibacillus phocaensis sp. nov., isolated from the gut microbiota of a healthy infant.

Maryam Tidjani Alou (1) , Jaishriram Rathored (1) , Tt Nguyen (1) , C Andrieu (1) , C Couderc (1) , S Brah (1) , Ba Diallo (2) , Pierre-Edouard Fournier (3, 1) , Didier Raoult (3, 1) , Grégory Dubourg (1)

1 URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes
2 UAM - Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey = Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey
3 IHU Marseille - Institut Hospitalier Universitaire Méditerranée Infection

Paenibacillus phocaensis sp. nov. strain mt24(T) (= CSUR P2238 = DSM 101777) is a Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, spore-forming and motile bacilli. This strain was isolated from the stool sample of a healthy infant from Niger. Its genome was estimated to a size of 5 521 415 bp with a 53.54% GC content. It contains 4835 protein-coding genes and 89 RNAs, among which two were 16S rRNA genes. There were also 101 genes (2.09%) identified as ORFans.

Domaines: Bactériologie; Virologie; Parasitologie; Cardiologie et système cardiovasculaire; Maladies émergentes; Maladies infectieuses

Maryam Tidjani Alou, Jaishriram Rathored, Tt Nguyen, C Andrieu, C Couderc, et al.. Paenibacillus phocaensis sp. nov., isolated from the gut microbiota of a healthy infant. . New Microbes and New Infections, 2016, 16, pp.13-24. ⟨10.1016/j.nmni.2016.12.001⟩. ⟨hal-01475398⟩