%0 Journal Article %A Vedros*, Neylan A. %A Hoke, Carolyn %A Chun, Peter %T Neisseria macacae sp. nov., a new Neisseria Species Isolated from the Oropharynges of Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) %D 1983 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 33 %N 3 %P 515-520 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-33-3-515 %I Microbiology Society, %X Three gram-negative, oxidase-positive diplococcal strains were isolated from the oropharynges of healthy monkeys. These three strains closely resembled Neisseria perflava in their physiological and biochemical characteristics, were more similar to Neisseria canis in their cellular fatty acid profiles, and were moderately related to Neisseria mucosa (51.9%) as determined by deoxyribonucleic acid-deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization. An analysis of 11 enzymes indicated clustering closest to Neisseria sicca, followed by N. mucosa. We propose the name Neisseria macacae for this new species, and the type strain of this species is strain M-740 (= ATCC 33926). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-33-3-515