Novel staphylococcal species that form part of a Staphylococcus aureus-related complex: the non-pigmented Staphylococcus argenteus sp. nov. and the non-human primate-associated Staphylococcus schweitzeri sp. nov.-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Novel staphylococcal species that form part of a Staphylococcus aureus-related complex: the non-pigmented Staphylococcus argenteus sp. nov. and the non-human primate-associated Staphylococcus schweitzeri sp. nov.

Published:2015-01-01 Issue:Pt_1 Volume:65 Page:15-22
ISSN:1466-5026
Container-title:International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
language:en
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Author:

Tong Steven Y. C.¹²,Schaumburg Frieder³,Ellington Matthew J.⁴,Corander Jukka⁵,Pichon Bruno⁶,Leendertz Fabian⁷,Bentley Stephen D.¹,Parkhill Julian¹,Holt Deborah C.²,Peters Georg³,Giffard Philip M.²

Affiliation:

1. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

2. Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

3. Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

4. Public Health England, Cambridge, UK

5. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

6. Public Health England, London, UK

7. Project Group Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

We define two novel species of the genus

Staphylococcus

that are phenotypically similar to and have near identical 16S rRNA gene sequences to

Staphylococcus aureus

. However, compared to

S. aureus

and each other, the two species, Staphylococcus argenteus sp. nov. (type strain MSHR1132T = DSM 28299T = SSI 89.005T) and Staphylococcus schweitzeri sp. nov. (type strain FSA084T = DSM 28300T = SSI 89.004T), demonstrate: 1) at a whole-genome level considerable phylogenetic distance, lack of admixture, average nucleotide identity <95 %, and inferred DNA–DNA hybridization <70 %; 2) different profiles as determined by MALDI-TOF MS; 3) a non-pigmented phenotype for S. argenteus sp. nov.; 4) S. schweitzeri sp. nov. is not detected by standard nucA PCR; 5) distinct peptidoglycan types compared to

S. aureus

; 6) a separate ecological niche for S. schweitzeri sp. nov.; and 7) a distinct clinical disease profile for S. argenteus sp. nov. compared to

S. aureus

Funder

Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellow

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Wellcome Trust

Publisher

Microbiology Society

Subject

General Medicine,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Microbiology

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