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Abstract

Fourteen isolates of two different bacterial species isolated from the surface of smear-ripened cheeses were found to exhibit many characteristics of the genus . The isolates were aerobic, Gram-positive, catalase-positive, non-spore-forming and non-motile. The cell-wall peptidoglycan contained lysine, alanine and glutamic acid. sequence analysis indicated that the new isolates Re117 and Ca106 are closely related to the group and showed highest sequence similarity (>98 %) to and . However, DNA–DNA hybridization studies indicated that the strains represented two novel genomic species within the genus and did not belong to or (<43 % DNA–DNA relatedness). On the basis of the phylogenetic and phenotypic distinctiveness of the new isolates, these bacteria should be classified as two novel species, for which the names sp. nov. and sp. nov. are proposed. Type strains have been deposited in culture collections as Ca106 (=CIP 108036=DSM 16367) and Re117 (=CIP 108037=DSM 16368).

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