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A Numerical Taxonomic Study of Anaerobic Gram-negative Bacilli Classified as Bacteroides ureolyticus Isolated from Patients with Non-gonococcal Urethritis

T. N. Bryant^4,

Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, MRC Clinical Research Centre, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ, UK
Division of Communicable Diseases, MRC Clinical Research Centre, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ, UK
Electron Microscopy Research Group, MRC Clinical Research Centre, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ, UK
Department of Microbiology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH, UK

ABSTRACT

SUMMARY: A numerical taxonomic study of 64 strains of anaerobic Gram-negative bacilli isolated from men with non-gonococcal urethritis, two unclassified laboratory strains of "corroding bacilli", and 12 other strains of anaerobic Gram-negative bacilli, including nine received as anaerobic curved rods and three as "Bacteroides corrodens" (B. ureolyticus), isolated from women with bacterial vaginosis, was undertaken. Seventeen reference anaerobic strains belonging to the genera Bacteroides, Fusobacterium, Mobiluncus, Mitsuokella and Wolinella were included. Morphological, biochemical and physiological characteristics were examined in 103 tests. The resemblance between the 95 strains was calculated using the S_SM, S_J and D_P coefficients for cluster analyses based on the UPGMA method. All three approaches gave similar groupings, and the estimated average probability of test error was 2.46%. The strains fell into 10 phenons. The unclassified strains from men and three from women with lower genital-tract infections, and the laboratory strains of "corroding bacilli" clustered in one phenon with the reference strains of B. ureolyticus, indicating that they correspond to B. ureolyticus. The other unclassified strains of anaerobic curved rods clustered as a distinct phenon. They correspond to species of the newly described genus Mobiluncus. The taxonomic data and the compilation of diagnostic tables serve as a useful guide for the laboratory identification of clinical isolates regarded as B. ureolyticus.

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