Staphylococcus borealis

Staphylococcus borealis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Caryophanales
Family: Staphylococcaceae
Genus: Staphylococcus
Species:
S. borealis
Binomial name
Staphylococcus borealis
Pain et al. 2020[1]
Type strain
51-48[2]

Staphylococcus borealis is a bacterial species, member of the genus Staphylococcus, closely related to Staphylococcus haemolyticus and described in 2020.[2] Its cells are Gram positive, coccoid in shape, with a diameter of 0.65 to 1.23 μm and form clusters. Additionally, they are facultative anaerobic, coagulase negative and catalase positive. The type strain (51-48T = CCUG 73747T = CECT 30011T) was isolated from human blood culture at the University Hospital of North Norway (Tromsø, Norway), in 1997. Four additional strains included in the description were isolated from skin swabs, from healthy volunteers.[3] The genome sequence of the type strain is deposited in DNA Data Bank of Japan, European Nucleotide Archive and GenBank under the accession number JABVEJ000000000.

Additionally, three publicly available draft genome sequences were also identified as S. borealis,[2] two of which were from strains isolated from cattle in Canada[4] and the other a strain isolated from human skin in Denmark.[5]

  1. ^ "Species: Staphylococcus borealis". LPSN.DSMZ.de.
  2. ^ a b c Pain, Maria; Wolden, Runa; Jaén-Luchoro, Daniel; Salvà-Serra, Francisco; Iglesias, Beatriz Piñeiro; Karlsson, Roger; Klingenberg, Claus; Cavanagh, Jorunn Pauline (2020-10-13). "Staphylococcus borealis sp. nov., isolated from human skin and blood". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (12): 6067–6078. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004499. hdl:10037/20308. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 33048039. S2CID 222320446.
  3. ^ Cavanagh, Jorunn Pauline; Wolden, Runa; Heise, Philipp; Esaiassen, Eirin; Klingenberg, Claus; Aarag Fredheim, Elizabeth G. (November 2016). "Antimicrobial susceptibility and body site distribution of community isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci". APMIS. 124 (11): 973–978. doi:10.1111/apm.12591. hdl:10037/10924. PMID 27599662. S2CID 40502046.
  4. ^ Naushad, Sohail; Barkema, Herman W.; Luby, Christopher; Condas, Larissa A. Z.; Nobrega, Diego B.; Carson, Domonique A.; De Buck, Jeroen (2016-12-20). "Comprehensive Phylogenetic Analysis of Bovine Non-aureus Staphylococci Species Based on Whole-Genome Sequencing". Frontiers in Microbiology. 7: 1990. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01990. ISSN 1664-302X. PMC 5168469. PMID 28066335.
  5. ^ Stødkilde, Kristian; Poehlein, Anja; Brüggemann, Holger (2020-02-06). Newton, Irene L. G. (ed.). "Draft Genome Sequence of a New Staphylococcal Species Isolated from Human Skin". Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9 (6): MRA.01499–19, e01499–19. doi:10.1128/MRA.01499-19. ISSN 2576-098X. PMC 7005121. PMID 32029556.