RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Cools, Piet A1 Oyaert, Matthijs A1 Vaneechoutte, Mario A1 De Laere, Emmanuel A1 Vervaeke, StevenYR 2014 T1 Atopobiumdeltae sp. nov., isolated from the blood of a patient with Fournier’s gangrene JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 64 IS Pt_9 SP 3140 OP 3145 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.065243-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-stain-positive, obligately anaerobic, short rod, designated strain HHRM1715T, was isolated from the blood of a patient with Fournier’s gangrene, complicated by sepsis. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain HHRM1715T was shown to belong to the genus Atopobium and was most closely related to Atopobium minutum (95 % similarity). The results of 16S rRNA-gene-based phylogenetic analysis, cellular fatty acid analysis and differential biochemical tests, showed that strain HHRM1715T represented a novel species of the genus Atopobium . We therefore describe Atopobium deltae sp. nov. with HHRM1715T ( = LMG 27987T = CCUG 65171T) as the type strain and propose an emended description of the genus Atopobium with regard to the DNA G+C content., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.065243-0