Streptococcus sinensis sp nov., a novel species isolated from a patient with infective endocarditis

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Woo, PCY
Tam, DMW
Leung, KW
Lau, SKP
Teng, JLL
Wong, MKM
Yuen, KY
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[1] Univ Hong Kong, Dept Microbiol, Queen Mary Hosp, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Hong Kong, Pasteur Res Ctr, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
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10.1128/JCM.40.3.805-810.2002
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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bacterium was isolated from the blood culture of a patient with infective endocarditis. The cells were facultative anaerobic, nonsporulating, gram-positive cocci arranged in chains. The bacterium grows on sheep blood agar as alpha-hemolytic, gray colonies of 0.5 to 1 mm in diameter after 24 h of incubation at 37degreesC in ambient air. Growth also occurs in 10 or 40% bile and on bile esculin agar but not in 6% NaCl. No enhancement of growth is observed in 5% CO2. It is nongroupable with Lancefield groups A, B, C, D, F, or G antisera and is resistant to optochin and bacitracin. The organism is aftagellated and is nonmotile at both 25 and 37degreesC. It is Voges-Proskauer test positive. It produces leucine arylamidase and beta-glucosidase but not catalase, urease, lysine decarboxylase, or ornithine decarboxylase. It hydrolyzes esculin and arginine. It utilizes glucose, lactose, salicin, sucrose, pullulan, trehalose, cellobiose, hemicellulase, mannose, maltose, and starch. 16S rRNA gene sequencing showed that there were 3.6, 3.7, 4.3, 4.7, and 5.9% differences between the 16 S rRNA gene sequence of the bacterium and those of Streptococcus gordonii, Streptococcus intermedius, Streptococcus constellatus, Streptococcus sanguis, and Streptococcus anginosus, respectively. The G+C content of it (mean :L standard deviation) was 53.0% +/- 2.9%. Based on phylogenetic affiliation, it belongs to the mitis or anginosus group of Streptococcus. For these reasons a new species, Streptococcus sinensis sp. nov., is proposed, for which HKU4 is the type strain. Further studies should be performed to, ascertain the potential of this bacterium to become an emerging cause of infective endocarditis.
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