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1 School of Food Biosciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK
2 Culture Collection, Department of Clinical Bacteriology, University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden
3 Laboratory of Clinical Bacteriology, Sundsvall Hospital, Sundsvall, Sweden
Correspondence
Matthew D. Collins
m.d.collins{at}reading.ac.uk
An unusual catalase-positive, Gram-positive, coccus-shaped bacterium that originated from a human blood specimen was subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. Cell-wall murein and lipid composition analyses indicated that the unknown isolate was a member of the genus Luteococcus. The results of comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis were consistent with chemotaxonomic findings and showed that the unidentified bacterium represents a hitherto unknown sublineage within the genus Luteococcus that is closely related to, but distinct from, Luteococcus japonicus. On the basis of both phenotypic and phylogenetic evidence, it is proposed that the unknown bacterium from human blood should be classified as Luteococcus sanguinis sp. nov., with the type strain CCUG 33897T (=CIP 107216T).
The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain CCUG 33897T is AJ416758.
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