Complete genome and description of Corynebacterium incognita sp. nov.: a new bacterium within the Corynebacterium genus

• Published in: New microbes and new infections Vol. 42; p. 100893
• Main Authors: Boxberger, M., Antezack, A., Magnien, S., Cassir, N., La Scola, B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2021; Wiley Online Library; Elsevier
• Subjects: Bacteria; Bacteriology; Cardiology and cardiovascular system; Corynebacterium; Emerging diseases; genome; human; Human health and pathology; Infectious diseases; Life Sciences; Microbiology and Parasitology; New Microbes in Humans; Parasitology; sp. nov; species; taxono-genomics; Virology; genome; Corynebacterium; sp. nov; species; Bacteria; human; taxono-genomics
• ISSN: 2052-2975; 2052-2975
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nmni.2021.100893

In 2020, as part of the diagnosis in IHU-Méditerranée Infection Institute in Marseille (France) we isolated the new bacterial strain Marseille-3630T from a 7-year-old girl blood specimen (= CSUR: Q3630). Matrix-assisted desorption ionisation time–of-flight mass spectrometry failed to identify this isolate. Analysis of the 16S rRNA 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 described here its main phenotypic characteristics, genome sequence and annotation of Corynebacterium incognitum strain Marseille-3630T, a new member of the Corynebacterium genus, that we propose as type strain.