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Reclassification of Bacteroides ureolyticus as Campylobacter ureolyticus comb. nov.

¹ Ghent University;
² CCUG

³ E-mail: peter.vandamme{at}ugent.be

The protein profiles, genomic amplified fragment length polymorphism patterns, 16S rRNA and cpn60 gene sequences of a diverse collection of 26 Bacteroides ureolyticus strains, along with published data on its DNA base, respiratory quinone and cellular fatty acid compositions, were used to reassess the taxonomy of this bacterium. The results demonstrate that this organism is most appropriately allocated into the genus Campylobacter. The presence of much higher amounts of 18:17c in its cellular fatty acid profile and its ability to digest gelatine and casein are the characteristics that differentiate it from present Campylobacter species. Therefore we propose to reclassify this species incertae sedis into the genus Campylobacter as Campylobacter ureolyticus with strain LMG 6451T (= CCUG 7319T) as the type strain.