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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 2007, p. 4061-4063, Vol. 45, No. 12
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01100-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Helicobacter Species, "Helicobacter macacae," from Rhesus Monkeys with and without Chronic Idiopathic Colitis{triangledown}

James G. Fox,1* Samuel R. Boutin,1 Laurence K. Handt,3 Nancy S. Taylor,1 Shilu Xu,1 Barry Rickman,1 Robert P. Marini,1 Floyd E. Dewhirst,2 Bruce J. Paster,2 Sherri Motzel,3 and Hilton J. Klein3

Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts,1 Department of Molecular Genetics, The Forsyth Institute, Boston, Massachusetts,2 Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania3

Received 31 May 2007/ Returned for modification 29 July 2007/ Accepted 30 September 2007

Chronic idiopathic colitis is a common clinical entity in young captive rhesus monkeys. Eight isolates, cultured from five monkeys in colony 1 with endemic diarrhea and three from colony 2 without diarrhea, were grown under microaerobic conditions on selective agar and were classified by full 16S rRNA sequence, biochemical, and phenotypic analysis as a novel helicobacter, "Helicobacter macacae" (proposed name). All eight strains of H. macacae had 99.5% identical 16S rRNA sequences.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 16, Rm. 825C, Cambridge, MA 02139. Phone: (617) 253-1735. Fax: (617) 252-1877. E-mail: jgfox{at}mit.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 10 October 2007.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 2007, p. 4061-4063, Vol. 45, No. 12
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01100-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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