Selenomonas felix sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from human sputum.

Selenomonas felix strain Marseille-P3560T (=CSURP3560) is a new species isolated from human sputum.

Brachybacterium timonense sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from human sputum.

Brachybacterium timonense strain Marseille-P4339T (=CSURP4339, =CECT9821) is a new species isolated from human sputum.

Brachybacterium massiliense sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from stool from a healthy Senegalese child.

Based on our phenotypic and genotypic analyses, Brachybacterium massiliense strain Marseille-P2240T (= CSURP2240; = DSM 101766) is a new species isolated from stool of a healthy subject. The strain was stained Gram-positive. It was aerobic, catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. Its optimal growth occurs at 37°C in aerobic condition. The 16S ribosomal RNA sequence analysis revealed that strain Marseille-P2240T shown 98.18% similarity with Brachybacterium saurashtrense strain JG 06, the more closely related species with standing in nomenclature.

Prevotella marseillensis sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from a patient with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection.

Prevotella marseillensis strain Marseille-P8229T (= CSURP8229) is a new species isolated from a patient with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. It is an anaerobic, non-motile, non-spore-forming Gram-negative coccobacillus isolated from the stool of patient with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection in Marseille. We present herein its phenotypic description together with MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry analysis and genome sequencing and comparison. The genome of P. marseillensis is 4.1607 Mbp long with 45.80 mol% of G+C content, and it contains 3078 protein-coding genes.