Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Present address: Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental La Estanzuela, Colonia, Uruguay and Unidad Mixta Pasteur + INIA (UMPI), Institut Pasteur de Montevideo/Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2020 Mar;70(3):1450-1456. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003480.
Four spirochetes (F1, B21, Yale and AMB6-RJ) were isolated from environmental sources: F1 and B21 from soils of an urban slum community in Salvador (Brazil), Yale from river water in New Haven, Connecticut (USA) and AMB6-RJ from a pond in a horse farm in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Isolates were helix-shaped, aerobic, highly motile and non-virulent in a hamster model of infection. Draft genomes of the strains were obtained and analysed to determine the relatedness to other species of the genus . The analysis of 498 core genes showed that strains F1/B21 and Yale/AMB6-RJ formed two distinct phylogenetic clades within the 'Pathogens' group (group I). The average nucleotide identity (ANI) values of strains F1/B21 and Yale/AMB6-RJ to other previously described species were below <84 % and <82 %, respectively, which confirmed that these isolates should be classified as representatives of two novel species. Therefore, we propose sp. nov. and sp. nov. as new species in the genus . The type strains are F1 (=ATCC-TSD-163=KIT0259=CLEP00287) and Yale (=ATCC-TDS-162=KIT0258=CLEP00288), respectively.
从环境源中分离出了 4 株螺旋体(F1、B21、耶鲁和 AMB6-RJ):F1 和 B21 来自巴西萨尔瓦多城市贫民窟社区的土壤,耶鲁来自美国康涅狄格州纽黑文的河水,AMB6-RJ 来自巴西里约热内卢一个马场的池塘。分离株呈螺旋形,需氧,高度运动,在仓鼠感染模型中无毒性。获得了这些菌株的草图基因组,并进行了分析以确定与属内其他物种的亲缘关系。对 498 个核心基因的分析表明,F1/B21 和 Yale/AMB6-RJ 株在“病原体”组(组 I)内形成两个不同的系统发育分支。F1/B21 和 Yale/AMB6-RJ 株与其他先前描述的物种的平均核苷酸同一性(ANI)值分别低于<84%和<82%,这证实这些分离株应归类为两个新种的代表。因此,我们提议 为新属的新种。其模式株分别为 F1(=ATCC-TSD-163=KIT0259=CLEP00287)和耶鲁(=ATCC-TDS-162=KIT0258=CLEP00288)。