Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Gärtner and Colleagues Laboratories, Elisabethenstrasse 11, 88212 Ravensburg, Germany.
National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, 1015 Arlington Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2010 Apr;60(Pt 4):871-873. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.010942-0. Epub 2009 Aug 6.
A non-lipophilic coryneform bacterium, strain 3105(T), was isolated from various tissues of a ferret with lethal sepsis. The strain was characterized by phenotypic and chemotaxonomic methods, which suggested an assignment of the isolate to the genus Corynebacterium. Strain 3105(T) exhibited the following peculiar features that made it possible to differentiate it phenotypically from all other corynebacteria: its distinctive 'humid cellar'-like odour, strong adherence to agar and a greenish-beige pigment. Strain 3105(T) exhibited more than 2.8 % 16S rRNA gene sequence divergence from its closest phylogenetic neighbour, Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis NCTC 3450(T) (97.12 % sequence similarity). Analysis of the highly variable region within the rpoB gene sequence showed that strain 3105(T) exhibited more than 14 % divergence from its closest phylogenetic relative, again C. pseudotuberculosis. Based on the data presented, it is proposed that the ferret isolate should be classified within a novel species, Corynebacterium mustelae sp. nov. (type strain 3105( T) =CCUG 57279(T) =DSM 45274(T)).
一株非脂溶性棒状杆菌,菌株 3105(T),从一只患有致命性败血症的雪貂的各种组织中分离出来。该菌株的表型和化学分类特征表明,该分离株属于棒状杆菌属。菌株 3105(T)表现出以下独特的特征,使其能够在表型上与所有其他棒状杆菌区分开来:其独特的“潮湿地窖”般的气味、对琼脂的强烈粘附性和绿褐色的色素。菌株 3105(T)与最近的亲缘种,结核分枝杆菌 NCTC 3450(T)的 16S rRNA 基因序列差异超过 2.8%(97.12%序列相似性)。对 rpoB 基因序列高度可变区的分析表明,菌株 3105(T)与最近的亲缘种,结核分枝杆菌的差异超过 14%。基于所提供的数据,建议将该雪貂分离株分类为一个新种,即 Mustela 棒状杆菌 sp. nov.(模式菌株 3105(T) =CCUG 57279(T) =DSM 45274(T))。