%0 Journal Article %A Bajrai, Leena Hussein %A Azhar, Esam Ibraheem %A Yasir, Muhammad %A Jardot, Priscilla %A Barrassi, Lina %A Raoult, Didier %A La Scola, Bernard %A Pagnier, Isabelle %T Legionella saoudiensis sp. nov., isolated from a sewage water sample %D 2016 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 66 %N 11 %P 4367-4371 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001357 %K legionella %K taxonogenomic %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, bacilli-shaped bacterial strain, LS-1T, was isolated from a sewage water sample collected in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The taxonomic position of strain LS-1T was investigated using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences and those of four other genes indicated that strain LS-1T belongs to the genus Legionella in the family Legionellaceae . Regarding the 16S rRNA gene, the most closely related species are Legionella rowbothamii LLAP-6T (98.6 %) and Legionella lytica L2T (98.5 %). The mip gene sequence of strain LS-1T showed 94 % sequence similarity with that of L. lytica L2T and 93 % similarity with that of L. rowbothamii LLAP-6T. Strain LS-1T grew optimally at a temperature of 32 °C on a buffered charcoal yeast extract (BCYE) agar plate in a 5 % CO2 atmosphere and had a flagellum. The combined phylogenetic, phenotypic and genomic sequence data suggest that strain LS-1T represents a novel species of the genus Legionella , for which the name Legionella saoudiensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is LS-1T (=DSM 101682T=CSUR P2101T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001357