“…DNA-DNA hybridizations with C. A large number of novel species of the genus Chryseobacterium have been described within the last 15 years (Hugo et al, 2003;Li et al, 2003;de Beer et al, 2005;Shen et al, 2005;Shimomura et al, 2005;Young et al, 2005;Park et al, 2006;Tai et al, 2006;Herzog et al, 2008;Behrendt et al, 2008;Weon et al, 2008;Szoboszlay et al, 2008;Hantsis-Zacharov et al, 2008;Kim et al, 2005Kim et al, , 2008Kämpfer et al, 2009aKämpfer et al, , b, c, 2010Benmalek et al, 2010;Pires et al, 2010;Yassin et al, 2010) and, recently, species of the genera Sejongia and Kaistella have been added to the still growing number of species of the genus Chryseobacterium (Kämpfer et al, 2009a, b). Members of the genus Chryseobacterium can be found in a wide variety of samples from clinical sources (Bernardet et al, 2006) but also in samples of aquatic origin (de Beer et al, 2006;Ilardi et al, 2009).…”