Name: Bordetella petrii Von Wintzingerode et al. 2001

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pe’tri.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. petrii, of Petri, named in honour of R. J. Petri, an early German microbiologist who developed the Petri-dish (Petri, 1887)

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCUG 43448; DSM 12804; Se-1111R

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ249861 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: von Wintzingerode F, Schattke A, Siddiqui RA, Rosick U, Gobel UB, Gross R. Bordetella petrii sp. nov., isolated from an anaerobic bioreactor, and emended description of the genus Bordetella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1257-1265.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1621-1623.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.01776 (N = 30).
  • 😷 The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 36 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology 2022; 168:0.

Parent taxon: Bordetella Moreno-López 1952 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: von Wintzingerode F, Schattke A, Siddiqui RA, Rosick U, Gobel UB, Gross R. Bordetella petrii sp. nov., isolated from an anaerobic bioreactor, and emended description of the genus Bordetella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1257-1265.

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Record number: 774105