RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Funke, Guido A1 Englert, Ralf A1 Frodl, Reinhard A1 Bernard, Kathryn A. A1 Stenger, SteffenYR 2010 T1 Corynebacterium canis sp. nov., isolated from a wound infection caused by a dog bite JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 60 IS 11 SP 2544 OP 2547 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.019927-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A non-lipophilic, coryneform bacterium isolated from a patient's wound caused by a dog bite was characterized by phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and molecular genetic methods. Chemotaxonomic features suggested assignment of the unknown bacterium to the genus Corynebacterium. The isolate exhibited the following unusual features, which made it possible to phenotypically differentiate it from all other medically relevant corynebacteria: the Gram stain showed some very filamentous rods (>15 μm in length); some cells exhibited branching; colonies were domed and adherent to agar; the micro-organism was positive for pyrazinamidase, β-glucosidase, α-glucosidase and trypsin but negative for β-galactosidase. 16S rRNA gene sequencing and partial rpoB gene sequencing showed that the closest phylogenetic relative, Corynebacterium freiburgense, exhibited more than 1.9 % and 17.9 % divergence with the unknown bacterium, respectively. Based on both phenotypic and molecular genetic data, it is proposed that the isolate should be classified as a novel species, Corynebacterium canis sp. nov., with the type strain 1170T (=CCUG 58627T =DSM 45402T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.019927-0