%0 Journal Article %A Kämpfer, Peter %A Glaeser, Stefanie P. %A Packroff, Gabriele %A Behringer, Katja %A Exner, Martin %A Chakraborty, Trinad %A Schmithausen, Ricarda M. %A Doijad, Swapnil %T Lelliottia aquatilis sp. nov., isolated from drinking water %D 2018 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 68 %N 8 %P 2454-2461 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002854 %K rep-PCRs %K isDDH %K ANI %K MLSA %K Lelliottia %I Microbiology Society, %X Five beige-pigmented, oxidase-negative bacterial isolates, 6331-17T, 6332-17, 6333-17, 6334-17 and 9827-07, isolated either from a drinking water storage reservoir or drinking water in 2006 and 2017 in Germany, were examined in detail applying by a polyphasic taxonomic approach. Cells of the isolates were rod-shaped and Gram-stain-negative. Comparison of the 16S rRNA gene sequences of these five isolates showed highest sequence similarities to Lelliottia amnigena (99.98 %) and Lelliottia nimipressuralis (99.99 %). Multilocus sequence analyses based on concatenated partial rpoB, gyrB, infB and atpD sequences confirmed the clustering of these isolates with Lelliottia species, but also revealed a clear distinction to the closest related type strains. Analysis of the genome sequences of these isolates indicated >70 % in silico DNA–DNA hybridization and high average nucleotide identities between strains. Nevertheless, they showed only <70 and <95 % similarity to the type strains of these two Lelliottia species. The fatty acid profiles of these isolates were very similar and consisted of the major fatty acids C16:0, C17 : 0cyclo, C15 : 0iso 2-OH/C16 : 1ω7c and C18 : 1 ω7c. In addition, physiological/biochemical tests revealed high phenotypic similarity to each other. These cumulative data indicate that these isolates represent a novel Lelliottia species, for which the name Lelliottia aquatilis sp. nov. is proposed, with strain 6331-17T (=CCM 8846T=CIP 111609T=LMG 30560T) as the type strain. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002854