RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Saha, P. A1 Chakrabarti, T.YR 2006 T1 Aeromonas sharmana sp. nov., isolated from a warm spring JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 56 IS 8 SP 1905 OP 1909 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63972-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic bacterial strain designated GPTSA-6T was isolated from a water sample collected from a warm spring in Assam, India. Preliminary analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence of this isolate revealed its affiliation to the family Aeromonadaceae. Detailed characterization using a polyphasic approach indicated that strain GPTSA-6T is most closely related to Aeromonas sobria but differs significantly from existing members of the genus Aeromonas. Analysis of the almost-complete (1430โ€…nt) 16S rRNA gene sequence of this strain revealed that its closest relative (99.23โ€Š% similarity) is an uncultured bacterial clone, A-8, isolated from an algal bloom. Of the taxa with validly published names, Aeromonas sobria ATCC 43979T showed the highest level of sequence similarity (95.13โ€Š%) with respect to strain GPTSA-6T, followed by Aeromonas molluscorum 848TT and Aeromonas popoffii LMG 17541T (95.04โ€Š% similarity in both cases). On the basis of the phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic data, it can be concluded that strain GPTSA-6T represents a novel species of the genus Aeromonas, for which the name Aeromonas sharmana sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is GPTSA-6T (=MTCC 7090T=DSM 17445T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.63972-0