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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2004, p. 2829-2832, Vol. 42, No. 6
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.6.2829-2832.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Identification of a Novel Brevibacterium Species Isolated from Humans and Description of Brevibacterium sanguinis sp. nov.

Georges Wauters,1* Gerhard Haase,2 Véronique Avesani,1 Jacqueline Charlier,1 Michèle Janssens,1 Johan Van Broeck,1 and Michel Delmée1

Microbiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Louvain, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium,1 Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany2

Received 13 October 2003/ Returned for modification 2 December 2003/ Accepted 2 March 2004

Six coryneforms isolated from blood and dialysate fluid were phenotypically similar to Brevibacterium casei, but 16S rRNA gene sequencing and DNA-DNA hybridization indicate that they belong to a new species for which the name Brevibacterium sanguinis is proposed.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: University of Louvain, Microbiology Unit, UCL/5490, Av. Hippocrate 54, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium. Phone: 32 2 7645490. Fax: 32 2 7649440. E-mail: wauters{at}mblg.ucl.ac.be.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2004, p. 2829-2832, Vol. 42, No. 6
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.6.2829-2832.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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