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Prevotella bergensis sp. nov., isolated from human infections

¹ King's College London Dental Institute at Guy's, King's College and St Thomas' Hospitals, Infection Research Group, London SE1 9RT, UK
² Division of Biomedical Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
³ The Gade Institute and Haukeland University Hospital, Section of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Bergen, Bergen N-5021, Norway

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William G. Wade
william.wade{at}kcl.ac.uk

Eight strains of anaerobic Gram-negative bacilli isolated from infections of the skin and soft tissues were subjected to a comprehensive range of phenotypic and genotypic tests. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed the strains to constitute a homogeneous group, distinct from species with validly published names but related to a cluster including Prevotella buccae, Prevotella dentalis and Prevotella baroniae. A novel species, Prevotella bergensis sp. nov., is proposed to accommodate these strains. Prevotella bergensis is saccharolytic and produces acetic and succinic acids as end products of fermentation. The G+C content of the DNA of the type strain is 48 mol%. The type strain of Prevotella bergensis is 94067913^T (=DSM 17361^T=CCUG 51224^T).

Published online ahead of print on 2 December 2005 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63888-0.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of P. bergensis DSM 17361^T is AY350613.

Electron micrographs of P. bergensis, an extended phylogenetic tree and FAME analyses compared with other Prevotella species are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.

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