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A Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, short-rod shaped bacterium, designated as strain HZ0627T, was isolated from the appendiceal pus of a patient with appendicitis in Yongzhou, Hunan, China. More...

A Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, short-rod shaped bacterium, designated as strain HZ0627T, was isolated from the appendiceal pus of a patient with appendicitis in Yongzhou, Hunan, China. This strain was subjected to comprehensive phenotypic, phylogenetic, and genomic analyses using polyphasic taxonomic methods. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that this strain belongs to the genus Proteus, while that based on the rpoB gene sequence and the whole genome sequence demonstrated that this strain formed a distinct interspecies clade separated from other type strains of Proteus species. Therefore, we propose the name Proteus appendicitidis sp. nov. for strain HZ0627T (= CCTCC AB2022380T = KCTC92986T), which represents the type strain of this novel Proteus species. Less...