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I recently obtained faecal samples from a patient with unusual symptoms. The patient had recently travelled...

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I recently obtained faecal samples from a patient with unusualsymptoms. The patient had recently travelled to an island wherethere was no access to fresh water.  From these samples Iisolated what I believe is a new bacteria species. How can Iconfirm that this is indeed a new bacteria species and, how do I goabout reporting it to the scientific community?

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You must do a lot of analysis and cross checkings before you claiming a new species of bacteria or any new organism 1 Genomic DNA analysis wholegenome sequence analysis seems to be very costly But DNA DNA hybridization and BLAST analysis of 16s rDNA    See Answer
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