| Title | Parabacteroides chongii sp. nov., isolated from blood of a patient with peritonitis |
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| Author | Hyunsoo Kim1,2, Wan-Taek Im3, Myungsook Kim1, Dokyun Kim1, Young Hee Seo1, Dongeun Yong1, Seok Hoon Jeong1, and Kyungwon Lee1* |
| Address | 1Department of Laboratory Medicine and Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea, 2Department of Laboratory Medicine, National police hospital, Seoul 05715, Republic of Korea, 3Department of Biotechnology and Genomic Informatics Center, Hankyong National University, Anseong 17579, Republic of Korea |
| Bibliography | Journal of Microbiology, 56(10),722–726, 2018, |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12275-018-8122-3 |
| Key Words | Parabacteroides chongii, peritonitis, bacteremia |
| Abstract | An obligate anaerobic, Gram-reaction-negative, non-sporeforming, non-motile, rod shaped bacterium designated YMC B3181T was isolated from the blood of a patient with peritonitis. Strain B3181T grew at 20 to 40°C with optimum growth at 37°C. 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity showed strain B3181T belongs to the genus Parabacteroides and is closely related to Parabacteroides faecis 157T (97.3%), Parabacteroides gordonii MS-1T (96.6%), and Parabacteroides goldsteinii DSM 19448T (95.7%). The G + C content of the genomic DNA was 42.3 mol%. The major cellular fatty acids were anteiso- C15:0 and iso-C17:0 3-OH, and the predominant respiratory quinones were MK-9 and MK-10 menaquinones. Genomic and chemotaxonomic data supported affiliation of B3181T with the genus Parabacteroides. Strain B3181T was phylogenetically and phenotypically different from recognized species of the genus Parabacteroides. Accordingly, this isolate belongs to a novel species for which the name Parabacteroides chongii sp. nov. (type strain YMC B3181T = LMG 30065T = KACC 19034T) is proposed. |