Reclassification of Staphylococcus jettensis De Bel et al. 2013 as Staphylococcus petrasii subsp. jettensis subsp. nov. and emended description of Staphylococcus petrasii Pantucek et al. 2013

• DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.064758-0
• Publication Date: 2014-09-27T06:41:17Z
• Authors: Annelies De Bel; Pavel Švec; Petr Petráš; Ivo Sedláček; Roman Pantůček; Fedoua Echahidi; Denis Piérard; Peter Vandamme
• Keywords: DNA, Bacterial; 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences; Genes, Bacterial; Staphylococcus; Molecular Sequence Data; Nucleic Acid Hybridization; Ribotyping; Phylogeny; 3. Good health

The type and clinical strains of two recently described coagulase-negative species of the genus

Staphylococcus,

Staphylococcus petrasii

and

Staphylococcus jettensis

, were compared using dnaJ, tuf, gap, hsp60 and rpoB gene sequences, DNA–DNA hybridization, ribotyping, repetitive sequence-based PCR fingerprinting and extensive biochemical characterization. Based on the results, the species description of

S. petrasii

has been emended and

S. jettensis

should be reclassified as a novel subspecies within

S. petrasii

for which the name Staphylococcus petrasii subsp. jettensis subsp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SEQ110T ( = LMG 26879T = CCUG 62657T = DSM 26618T = CCM 8494T).