RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Bernard, Kathryn A. A1 Pacheco, Ana Luisa A1 Burdz, Tamara A1 Wiebe, Deborah A1 Huynh, Chris A1 Bonner, Christine A1 German, Greg J. A1 Bernier, Anne-MarieYR 2016 T1 Brevibacterium massiliense (Roux and Raoult 2009) is a later heterotypic synonym of Brevibacterium ravenspurgense (Mages, Frodl, Bernard and Funke 2009), using whole-genome sequence analysis as a comparative tool JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 66 IS 11 SP 4440 OP 4444 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001371 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A patient strain derived from urine was found by 16S rRNA gene sequencing to be closely related (99.6 % identity) to sequences derived from both Brevibacterium ravenspurgense CCUG 56047T and Brevibacterium massilienseCCUG 53855T. Those species had been described during the same 11 month period in 2008–2009. Further characterization revealed that those isolates could not be readily distinguished from each other biochemically, by cellular fatty acids, antimicrobial susceptibility, MALDI-TOF MS, 16S rRNA gene sequencing or by whole-genome sequence (WGS) analyses. By WGS comparison, these isolates had an aerage nucleotide identity using blastn (ANIb) scores of 95.7 % or higher to each other, DNA G+C content in the range of 62.3 mol%–62.4 mol%, with genome sizes ranging from 2.28×106 to 2.41×106 bases. Based on these data, we propose that the name B. massiliense is a later heterotypic synonym of B. ravenspurgense and provide an emended description of B. ravenspurgense ., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001371