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SUBMITTER: Ghimire S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7005547 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ghimire S S Wongkuna S S Kumar R R Nelson E E Christopher-Hennings J J Scaria J J
New microbes and new infections 20200107
An anaerobic isolate SG772 belonging to the genus <i>Blautia</i> was isolated from a healthy human faecal sample. When compared using 16s rRNA sequence identity, SG772 showed only 94.46% similarity with its neighbour species <i>Blautia stercoris.</i> As strain SG772 showed both phenotypic and genomic differences from other members of the type species within the genus <i>Blautia</i>, we propose the designation of SG772 as novel species '<i>Blautia brookingsii</i> SG772<sup>T</sup>'. ...[more]