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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacteroidota |
| Class: | Bacteroidia |
| Order: | Bacteroidales |
| Family: | Bacteroidaceae |
| Genus: | Phocaeicola Al Masalma et al., 2009 |
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.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b García-López, Marina; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Tindall, Brian J.; Gronow, Sabine; Woyke, Tanja; Kyrpides, Nikos C.; Hahnke, Richard L.; Göker, Markus (23 September 2019). "Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes". Frontiers in Microbiology. 10: 2083. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.02083. PMC 6767994. PMID 31608019.
- ^ Al Masalma, M.; Raoult, D.; Roux, V. (1 September 2009). "Phocaeicola abscessus gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium isolated from a human brain abscess sample". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (9): 2232–2237. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.007823-0. PMID 19620382.
- ^ "Genus: Phocaeicola". lpsn.dsmz.de.
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