Haloferax massiliensis sp. nov., the first human-associated halophilic archaea

S Khelaifia; D Raoult

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.05.007

Haloferax massiliensis sp. nov., the first human-associated halophilic archaea

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 May 14:12:96-8. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.05.007. eCollection 2016 Jul.

Authors

S Khelaifia¹, D Raoult¹

Affiliation

¹ Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, CNRS (UMR 7278), IRD (198), INSERM (U1095), AMU (UM63), Marseille, France; Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Faculté de médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.

Abstract

We report the main characteristics of Haloferax massiliensis strain Arc-Hr(T) (= CSUR P974) isolated from stool specimen of a 22-year-old Amazonian obese female patient.

Keywords: Culturomics; Haloferax massiliensis; genomics; taxonogenomics; taxonomy.