Anaerococcus marasmi sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from the human gut microbiota

Abstract Anaerococcus marasmi sp. nov. strain Marseille-P3557T is a new species isolated from a stool of a Nigerian child with marasmus. The genome of Marseille-P3557T was 2,130,060 bp-long (35.4% G+C content). The closest species based on 16S rRNA sequence was Anaerococcus prevotii strain 20548 with 97.6% sequence similarity. Considering phenotypic features and comparative genome studies, we proposed the strain Marseille-P3557T as the type strain of Anaerococcus marasmi sp. nov. a new species within the genus Anaerococcus.