%0 Journal Article %A Vandamme, Peter %A De Brandt, Evie %A Houf, Kurt %A De Baere, Thierry %T Kerstersia similis sp. nov., isolated from human clinical samples %D 2012 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 62 %N Pt_9 %P 2156-2159 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.037887-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Analysis of gyrB gene sequences, (GTG)5-primed PCR fingerprinting and biochemical characteristics determined in the Biolog GEN III microtest system were used to differentiate an unnamed Kerstersia species from Kerstersia gyiorum , the type and only named species in this genus. The inability to oxidize d-galacturonic and d-glucuronic acids and the ability to oxidize d-serine, along with gyrB gene sequence analysis and (GTG)5-PCR fingerprints, readily differentiated the unnamed taxon from the type species. Therefore, we propose to formally classify this unnamed taxon as Kerstersia similis sp. nov. with strain LMG 5890T ( = CCUG 46999T), isolated from a leg wound in the USA in 1983, as the type strain. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.037887-0