Virgibacillus doumboii sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from the stool of a healthy child in Mali

• DOI: 10.1016/j.nmni.2021.100890
• Publication Date: 2021-04-27T12:27:32Z
• Authors: S. Konate; A. Camara; C.I. Lo; M. Tidjani Alou; A. Hamidou Togo; S. Niare; N. Armstrong; A. Djimdé; M.A. Thera; F. Fenollar; D. Raoult; M. Million
• Keywords: Genome size

A moderately halophilic and strictly aerobic bacterium was isolated from a human stool as part of study on the diagnosis childhood malnutrition in Mali. Strain Marseille-Q1616T is Gram-stain-positive, rod-shaped, catalase-positive oxidase-negative bacterium. It has genome size 3.91 Mbp with 39.79% G+C content, which contains 3954 protein-coding genes including encoding phosphomycin resistance Listeria monocytogenes, 16 rRNA 64 tRNA genes. exhibited 96.3% 16S gene sequence similarity shared an OrthoANI value 70.64% (the highest observed) Virgibacillus kekensis, phylogenetically closest validly published species. Based phenotypic phylogenetic evidence genomic average nucleotide identity values, we suggest creation new species within genus, named doumboii sp. nov., type strain (= CSURQ1616).