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Abstract

Five strains of a Gram-stain-positive, catalase-negative, -haemolytic, coccus-shaped chain-forming organism were isolated separately from the lower respiratory tracts of five animals of in the endemic area of plague, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. Based on their morphological characteristics, biochemical features and molecular phylogenetic studies, the strains were placed as representing a new member of the genus . Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence studies indicated that strain HTS5 shared 96.5, 96.2 and 96.0 % similarity with treptococcus CCUG 42692, ATCC 15912 and ATCC 43765, respectively. Sequence analysis of its and genes showed that strain HTS5 was most closely related to CCUG 65085 with 9.2 and 10.9 % interspecies divergence, respectively. The whole genome phylogenetic tree based on 339 core genes of 65 genomes confirmed that HTS5 belongs to a distinct lineage that is well separated from recognized species of the genus . DNA–DNA hybridization using 65 available genomes from GenBank showed that HTS5 displayed less than 70 % DNA–DNA relatedness with the other 65 species of the genus deposited in the GenBank database. The genome of strain HTS5 (2 322 791 bp) contained 2377 genes and had a G+C content of 41.6 mol%. Therefore, the five strains are considered to represent a novel species of the genus for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HTS5 (=DSM 101995=CGMCC 1.15534).

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