Escherichia ruysiae sp. Nov., a novel gram-stainnegative bacterium, isolated from a faecal sample of an international traveller

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Abstract

The genus Escherichia comprises five species and at least five lineages currently not assigned to any species, termed ‘Escherichia cryptic clades’. We isolated an Escherichia strain from an international traveller and resolved the complete DNA sequence of the chromosome and an IncI multidrug resistance plasmid using Illumina and Nanopore whole-genome sequencing (WGS). Strain OPT1704T can be differentiated from existing Escherichia species using biochemical (VITEK2) and genomic tests [average nucleotide identity (ANI) and digital DNA–DNA hybridization (dDDH)]. Phylogenetic analysis based on alignment of 16S rRNA sequences and 682 concatenated core genes showed similar results. Our analysis further revealed that strain OPT1704T falls within Escherichia cryptic clade IV and is closely related to cryptic clade III. Combining our analyses with publicly available WGS data of cryptic clades III and IV from Enterobase confirmed the close relationship between clades III and IV (>96% interclade ANI), warranting assignment of both clades to the same novel species. We propose Escherichia ruysiae sp. nov. as a novel species, encompassing Escherichia cryptic clades III and IV (type strain OPT1704T=NCCB 100732T=NCTC 14359T).
Original languageEnglish
Article number004609
Pages (from-to)1-7
Number of pages7
JournalInternational journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology
Volume71
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Keywords

  • Bacterial taxonomy
  • Enterobacteriaceae
  • Escherichia

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