Table 3.
Description of Corynebacterium haemomassiliense sp. nov. strain Marseille-Q3615T
| Type of description | New description |
|---|---|
| Species name | haemomassiliense |
| Genus name | Corynebacterium |
| Specific epithet | Corynebacterium |
| Species status | sp. nov. |
| Species etymology | Corynebacterium haemomassiliense strain Marseille-Q3615T, from Gr. fem. n. korynê, ‘club’; L. neut. n. bacterium, ‘rod’, and in biology a bacterium (so called because the first ones observed were rod shaped); N.L. neut. n. Corynebacterium, ‘club bacterium’; Haemomassiliense, ‘blood’ (L. transliteration haema), referring to the nature of the specimen; and massiliense, ‘to Massilia’, the antic name of Marseille, France, where the strain was isolated |
| Authors | Manon Boxberger, Angéline Antezack, Sibylle Magnien, Nadim Cassir, Bernard La Scola |
| Designation of the type strain | Marseille-Q3615 |
| Strain collection number | CSUR |
| 16S rRNA gene accession number | MT772001 |
| Genome accession number | JACDTZ000000000 |
| Genome status | Whole genome |
| Genome size | 2 578 128 bp |
| GC% | 65.28% |
| Country of origin | France |
| Date of isolation | 2019 |
| Source of isolation | Human healthy skin |
| Conditions used for standard cultivation | Columbia agar with 5% sheep's blood (bioMérieux, Marcy l’Etoile, France) |
| Gram stain | + |
| Cell shape | Irregular rods |
| Cell size | 1.8 × 0.2 μm |
| Motility | − |
| Sporulation | − |
| Colony morphology | White, smooth |
| Temperature range | 20–56°C |
| Temperature optimum | 31.5–56°C |
| Relationship to O2 | Facultative |
| O2 for strain testing | + |
| Oxidase | − |
| Catalase | + |