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Abstract

We report the isolation of a novel bacterium, strain C1, from the midgut of the tsetse fly , one of the vector insects responsible for transmission of the trypanosomes that cause sleeping sickness in sub-Saharan African countries. Strain C1 is a motile, facultatively anaerobic, rod-like bacterium (0.8–1.0 μm in diameter; 2–6 μm long) that grows as single cells or in chains. Optimum growth occurred at 25–35 °C, at pH 6.7–8.4 and in medium containing 5–20 g NaCl l. The bacterium hydrolysed urea and used -lysine, -ornithine, citrate, pyruvate, -glucose, -mannitol, inositol, -sorbitol, melibiose, amygdalin, -arabinose, arbutin, aesculin, -fructose, -galactose, glycerol, maltose, -mannose, raffinose, trehalose and -xylose; it produced acetoin, reduced nitrate to nitrite and was positive for -galactosidase and catalase. The DNA G+C content was 53.6 mol%. It was related phylogenetically to members of the genus , family , the type strain of being its closest relative (99 % similarity between 16S rRNA gene sequences). However, DNA–DNA relatedness between strain C1 and DSM 4576 was only 37.15 %. Therefore, on the basis of morphological, nutritional, physiological and fatty acid analysis and genetic criteria, strain C1 is proposed to be assigned to a novel species, sp. nov. (type strain C1 =DSM 22080 =CCUG 57457).

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