Enterococcus canintestini sp. nov., from faecal samples of healthy dogs

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Authors	NASER Sabri M. VANCANNEYT Marc DE GRAEF Evelyne DEVRIESE Luc A. SNAUWAERT Cindy LEFEBVRE Karen HOSTE Bart ŠVEC Pavel DECOSTERE Annemie HAESEBROUCK Freddy SWINGS Jean
Year of publication	2005
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Web	http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/5/2177
Field	Microbiology, virology
Keywords	Enterococcus canintestini sp. nov.; faeces; dogs; taxonomy
Description	The taxonomic position of strain LMG 13590T, originally isolated from dog faeces and classified as Enterococcus dispar in the BCCM/LMG Bacteria Catalogue, was reinvestigated. This strain and 12 recent isolates from faecal samples of healthy dogs occupied a clearly separate position when investigated with multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) of the genes encoding the alpha subunit of ATP synthase (atpA), RNA polymerase alpha subunit (rpoA) and phenylalanyl-tRNA synthase alpha subunit (pheS). The 16S rRNA gene sequence of one representative strain showed highest similarities of 98-99 % with E. dispar LMG 13521T, Enterococcus canis LMG 12316T and Enterococcus asini LMG 18727T. A further polyphasic taxonomic study based on whole-cell protein fingerprinting, DNA-DNA hybridization and biochemical features demonstrated that the 13 enterococcal dog faecal strains represent a single, novel Enterococcus species for which the name Enterococcus canintestini sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is LMG 13590T (=CCM 7285T).
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