Draft genomes and descriptions of Urmitella timonensis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Marasmitruncus massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from severely malnourished African children using culturomics.

Two strains, designated as Marseille-P2918 and Marseille-P3646, were isolated from a 14-week-old Senegalese girl using culturomics: Urmitella timonensis strain Marseille-P2918 (= CSUR P2918, = DSM 103634) and Marasmitruncus massiliensis strain Marseille-P3646 (= CSUR P3646, = CCUG72353). Both strains were rod-shaped, anaerobic, spore forming motile bacteria. The 16S rRNA gene sequences of strains Marseille-P2918 (LT598554) and Marseille-P3646 (LT725660) shared 93.

Raoultibacter phocaeensis sp. nov., A New Bacterium Isolated from a Patient with Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection.

Strain Marseille-P8396 is a new species isolated from a patient with recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection. Its optimal growth condition was observed at pH of 7.5, at a temperature of 37 °C after 72 h of incubation on Columbia agar (BioMérieux, France) with 5% sheep blood, under an anaerobic atmosphere.

Draft Genome Sequence of Corynebacterium sanguinis Strain Marseille-P8776.

In 2018, Corynebacterium sanguinis strain Marseille-P8776 was isolated from the blood of a 64-year-old woman suffering from breast cancer who had undergone chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Following whole-genome sequencing, the chromosome of strain Marseille-P8776 was 2,613,836 bp long with a G+C content of 64.92%, 2,568 protein-coding genes, and 64 RNA genes.

Konateibacter massiliensis gen. nov. sp. nov. and Paenibacillus faecalis sp. nov., Two New Species Isolated from the Stool Samples of Infants Suffering from Marasmus.

Two bacterial strains were isolated and identified using microbial culturomics and characterised according to the taxono-genomics strategy. The strictly anaerobic strain, Marseille-P3773, forms smooth and translucent colonies consisting of Gram-stain negative, non-motile and non-spore-forming rod-shaped cells. Strain Marseille-P3787 consists of Gram-stain positive, motile and spore-forming cells resulting in grey and translucent colonies.

Clostridium culturomicium sp. nov. and Clostridium jeddahitimonense sp. nov., novel members of the Clostridium genus isolated from the stool of an obese Saudi Arabian.

Taxono-genomics is an innovative concept coined for the description of new bacterial species. Phenotypic characteristics were combined with a genomic approach to describe two new species within the Clostridium senso stricto genus: Clostridium culturomicium strain CL-6 and Clostridium jeddahitimonense strain CL-2, both isolated from the gut microbiota of an obese man from Saudi Arabia. Strains CL-6 and CL-2 shared a similarity of 98.

Whole-Genome Sequence of French Clinical Peptoniphilus catoniae Strain P8546.

In 2016, was reported as a bacterial species isolated from a healthy Peruvian male. In 2018, a clinical strain from the same species was isolated from the stool of a French patient with kidney cancer. The genome of this strain, P8546, was 1,725,465 bp long, with 33.