Republication of ?New Species Announcement?, a new format to prompt the description of new human microbial species

摘要

The study of human microbiota emerged as one of the mostactive fields of microbiology over the past 10 years [1]. Thisresearch has been fueled by the extensive use of culture, anapproach that we named ‘‘culturomics” [2]. As an example, startingculturomics in 2009 [2] Lagier et al. isolated 337 gut bacterial species, including 31 new species. They were published, but the namesof only 17 of them have officially been validated to date. This rateof discovery will accelerate with the rebirth of culture [3] as it hasbeen estimated that only 30% of this microbiota has been characterized so far so that many new species are expected to bedescribed in the coming years.