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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57 (2007), 1729-1734; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.64879-0
© 2007 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Avibacterium endocarditidis sp. nov., isolated from valvular endocarditis in chickens

Magne Bisgaard, Jens Peter Christensen, Anders Miki Bojesen and Henrik Christensen

Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Faculty of Life Science, Copenhagen University, 4 Stigbøjlen, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark

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Henrik Christensen
hech{at}life.ku.dk

A novel species of the Pasteurellaceae, Avibacterium endocarditidis sp. nov., is proposed based upon characterization of 27 isolates from valvular endocarditis in adult broiler parents. All isolates shared the same PFGE type after digestion of DNA with SmaI and XbaI. In addition, all isolates meet the phenotypic characters for the genus Avibacterium. Separation of the novel species from other species of Avibacterium was possible by means of tests for catalase, symbiotic growth, aerobic growth on agar, acid production from glycerol, xylitol, (+)-L-arabinose, (–)-D-mannitol, (–)-D-sorbitol, (–)-L-fucose, (+)-D-galactose, maltose, trehalose, raffinose and dextrin in addition to reactions with ONPG (beta-galactosidase) and PNPG ({alpha}-glucosidase). The closest relationship was observed with Avibacterium gallinarum which, however, can be separated from Avibacterium endocarditidis in acid production from (–)-D-mannitol, (–)-D-sorbitol and (–)-L-fucose. The highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (98.4 %) was found to strain Modesto, belonging to serogroup C of Avibacterium paragallinarum. recN gene DNA sequence similarities corrected by the formula of Zeigler (2003) (Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 1893–1900) documented 85 % or less DNA sequence similarity between the type strain of Avibacterium endocarditidis and species of Avibacterium, confirming the separate species status of this taxon according to the multilocus sequence analysis method of Kuhnert & Korczak (2006) (Microbiology 152, 2537–2548). The type strain of Avibacterium endocarditidis sp. nov., strain 20186H4H1T (=CCUG 52860T =DSM 18224T), was isolated from valvular endocarditis of a chicken in Denmark in 2004.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain 20186H4H1T is DQ465412, and those for the recN sequences of strain 20186H4H1T, A. volantium NCTC 3438T, A. paragallinarum NCTC 11296T and Avibacterium sp. A strain CCUG 18782 are DQ899746–DQ899749, respectively.

PFGE results and a recN sequence-based maximum-likelihood tree are available as supplementary material with the online version of this paper.






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