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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 59 (2009), 2054-2057; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.008672-0
© 2009 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Corynebacterium freiburgense sp. nov., isolated from a wound obtained from a dog bite

Guido Funke1, Reinhard Frodl1, Kathryn A. Bernard2 and Ralf Englert3

1 Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Gärtner and Colleagues Laboratories, Elisabethenstrasse 11, 88212 Ravensburg, Germany
2 National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, 1015 Arlington Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada
3 Department of Medical Microbiology, Labor Clotten, Bismarckallee 10, 79098 Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany

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Guido Funke
ldg.funke{at}t-online.de

A non-lipophilic, coryneform bacterium, isolated from a patient's wound obtained from a dog bite, was characterized by phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and molecular genetic methods. Chemotaxonomic features suggested assignment of the unknown bacterium to the genus Corynebacterium. The isolate exhibited the following peculiar features which made it possible to differentiate it phenotypically from all other medically relevant corynebacteria: older colonies exhibited a ‘spoke-wheel’ macroscopic morphology, colonies were strongly adherent to blood agar and the strain did not have pyrazinamidase activity, but was positive for β-galactosidase. 16S rRNA gene sequencing showed that the closest phylogenetic relative exhibited more than 3.9 % divergence from the unknown isolate. Based on phenotypic and molecular genetic data, it is proposed that the isolate should be classified as a representative of a novel species, Corynebacterium freiburgense sp. nov., with strain 1045T (=CCUG 56874T =DSM 45254T) as the type strain.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain 1045T is FJ157329.






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