Phocaeicola Explained

Phocaeicola is a genus of gram-negative, non-spore-forming, coccoid to rod-shaped cells with no flagella in the phylum Bacteroidota.[1] The first known species of Phocaeicola, P. abscessus, was isolated from a brain abscess in Foça Turkey.[2] It was named after the Ionian Greek city, Phocaea, now modern day Foça.[3]

Recently 14 Bacteroides species (B. vulgatus, B. barnesiae, B. caecicola, B. caecigallinarum, B. chincillae, B. coprocola, B. coprophilus, B. dorei, B. gallinaceum, B. massiliensis, B. paurosaccharolyticus, B. plebeius, B. salanitronis, B. sartorii) have been reclassified as Phocaeicola due to phylogenetic differences.

Notes and References

  1. García-López . Marina . Meier-Kolthoff . Jan P. . Tindall . Brian J. . Gronow . Sabine . Woyke . Tanja . Kyrpides . Nikos C. . Hahnke . Richard L. . Göker . Markus . Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes . Frontiers in Microbiology . 23 September 2019 . 10 . 2083 . 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02083. free . 31608019 . 6767994 .
  2. Al Masalma . M. . Raoult . D. . Roux . V. . Phocaeicola abscessus gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium isolated from a human brain abscess sample . International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology . 1 September 2009 . 59 . 9 . 2232–2237 . 10.1099/ijs.0.007823-0. 19620382 .
  3. Web site: Genus: Phocaeicola . lpsn.dsmz.de . en.

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