Nocardia kroppenstedtii sp. nov., an actinomycete isolated from a lung transplant patient with a pulmonary infection

Amanda L Jones, Andrew J Fisher, Rahul Mahida, Kate Gould, John D Perry, Margaret M Hannan, Eoin P Judge, Ros Brown, Kimberley Boagey, Michael Goodfellow

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Abstract

A novel actinomycete, strain N1286(T), isolated from a lung transplant patient with a pulmonary infection, was provisionally assigned to the genus Nocardia. The strain had chemotaxonomic and morphological properties typical of members of the genus Nocardia and formed a distinct phyletic line in the Nocardia 16S rRNA gene tree. Isolate N1286(T) was most closely related to Nocardia farcinica DSM 43665(T) (99.8% gene sequence similarity) but could be distinguished from the latter by the low level of DNA-DNA relatedness. These strains were also distinguishable on the basis of a broad range of phenotypic properties. It is concluded that strain N1286(T) represents a novel species of the genus Nocardia for which the name Nocardia kroppenstedtii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is N1286(T) ( = DSM 45810(T) = NCTC 13617(T)).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)751-754
Number of pages4
JournalInternational Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Volume64
Issue numberPt 3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2014

Keywords

  • Bacterial Typing Techniques
  • DNA, Bacterial
  • Fatty Acids
  • Humans
  • Lung Diseases
  • Lung Transplantation
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Nocardia
  • Nucleic Acid Hybridization
  • Phylogeny
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Vitamin K 2

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