Kerstersia similis sp. nov., isolated from human clinical samples

Abstract

Analysis of gyrB gene sequences, (GTG)5-primed PCR fingerprinting and biochemical characteristics determined in the Biolog GEN III microtest system were used to differentiate an unnamed Kerstersia species from Kerstersia gyiorum , the type and only named species in this genus. The inability to oxidize d-galacturonic and d-glucuronic acids and the ability to oxidize d-serine, along with gyrB gene sequence analysis and (GTG)5-PCR fingerprints, readily differentiated the unnamed taxon from the type species. Therefore, we propose to formally classify this unnamed taxon as Kerstersia similis sp. nov. with strain LMG 5890T ( = CCUG 46999T), isolated from a leg wound in the USA in 1983, as the type strain.