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Reclassification of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Haemophilus aphrophilus, Haemophilus paraphrophilus and Haemophilus segnis as Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans gen. nov., comb. nov., Aggregatibacter aphrophilus comb. nov. and Aggregatibacter segnis comb. nov., and emended description of Aggregatibacter aphrophilus to include V factor-dependent and V factor-independent isolates

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aarhus University Hospital Skejby, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
² Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark

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Niels Nørskov-Lauritsen
nnl{at}sks.aaa.dk

The aim of this study was to reinvestigate the relationships and the generic affiliations of the species Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Haemophilus aphrophilus, Haemophilus paraphrophilus and Haemophilus segnis. The nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase gene (nadV) conferring V factor-independent growth was identified in Haemophilus aphrophilus. The gene encodes a polypeptide of 462 amino acids that shows 74.5 % amino acid sequence identity to the corresponding enzyme from Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. Ten isolates of Haemophilus paraphrophilus all carried a nadV pseudogene. DNA from Haemophilus aphrophilus was able to transform Haemophilus paraphrophilus into the NAD-independent phenotype. The transformants carried a full-length nadV inserted in the former locus of the pseudogene. The DNA–DNA relatedness between the type strains of Haemophilus aphrophilus and Haemophilus paraphrophilus was 77 %. We conclude that the division into two species Haemophilus aphrophilus and Haemophilus paraphrophilus is not justified and that Haemophilus paraphrophilus should be considered a later heterotypic synonym of Haemophilus aphrophilus. Forty strains of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Haemophilus aphrophilus and Haemophilus segnis were investigated by multilocus sequence analysis. The 40 strains form a monophyletic group clearly separate from other evolutionary lineages of the family Pasteurellaceae. We propose the transfer of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Haemophilus aphrophilus and Haemophilus segnis to a new genus Aggregatibacter gen. nov. as Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans comb. nov. (the type species; type strain ATCC 33384^T=CCUG 13227^T=CIP 52.106^T=DSM 8324^T=NCTC 9710^T), Aggregatibacter aphrophilus comb. nov. (type strain ATCC 33389^T=CCUG 3715^T=CIP 70.73^T=NCTC 5906^T) and Aggregatibacter segnis comb. nov. (type strain HK316^T=ATCC 33393^T=CCUG 10787^T=CCUG 12838^T=CIP 103292^T=NCTC 10977^T). The species of the genus Aggregatibacter are independent of X factor and variably dependent on V factor for growth in vitro.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are DQ223269–DQ223325, as detailed in Supplementary Table S1.

Details of the strains included in this study, including sequence accession numbers, detailed DNA–DNA hybridization results and details of nadV PCR results with selected strains are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.

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