’Candidatus Ornithobacterium hominis’: Insights gained from draft genomes obtained from nasopharyngeal swabs

• Main Authors: Susannah J. Salter, Paul Scott, Andrew J. Page, Alan Tracey, Marcus C. de Goffau, Claire Cormie, Bernardo Ochoa-Montaño, Clare L. Ling, Jiraporn Tangmanakit, Paul Turner, Julian Parkhill
• Other Authors: University of Cambridge
• Format: Article
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/50279
• Institution: Mahidol University

© 2019 The Authors. ‘Candidatus Ornithobacterium hominis’ represents a new member of the Flavobacteriaceae detected in 16S rRNA gene surveys of people from South-East Asia, Africa and Australia. It frequently colonizes the infant nasopharynx at high proportional abundance, and we demonstrate its pre...