Draft genome and description of Corynebacterium haemomassiliense strain Marseille-Q3615(T) sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from a 59-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease symptoms

M. Boxberger (1) , A. Antezack (1) , S. Magnien (1) , N. Cassir (2) , B. La Scola (1, 2)

1 MEPHI - Microbes évolution phylogénie et infections
2 IHU Marseille - Institut Hospitalier Universitaire Méditerranée Infection

In 2020, as part of a diagnosis attempt at IHU Mediterranee Infection in Marseille (France), a blood specimen was obtained from a 59-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease symptoms, from which we isolated the new bacterial Corynebacterium haemomassiliense strain Marseille-Q3615(T). Matrix-assisted desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) failed to identify this isolate. Analysis of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene and genome-to-Genome comparison suggested that this taxon belongs to a novel bacterial species within the family Corynebacteriaceae in the phylum Actinobacteria. We describe the main phenotypic characteristics, genome sequence and annotation of Corynebacterium haemomassiliense strain Marseille-Q3615(T), a new member of the Corynebacterium genus, which we propose as the type strain. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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M. Boxberger, A. Antezack, S. Magnien, N. Cassir, B. La Scola. Draft genome and description of Corynebacterium haemomassiliense strain Marseille-Q3615(T) sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from a 59-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease symptoms. NEW MICROBES AND NEW INFECTIONS, 2020, 38, ⟨10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100801⟩. ⟨hal-03149254⟩