Name: Gardnerella piotii Vaneechoutte et al. 2019

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pi.o’ti.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. piotii, of Piot, named after Peter Piot, a Belgian microbiologist who first attempted to distinguish different groups within G. vaginalis

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCUG 72427; LMG 30818; NCTC 14289; UGent 18.01

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MH898664 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Vaneechoutte M, Guschin A, Van Simaey L, Gansemans Y, Van Nieuwerburgh F, Cools P. Emended description of Gardnerella vaginalis and description of Gardnerella leopoldii sp. nov., Gardnerella piotii sp. nov. and Gardnerella swidsinskii sp. nov., with delineation of 13 genomic species within the genus Gardnerella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:679-687.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 69, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1529-1530.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Gardnerella Greenwood and Pickett 1980

Assigned by: Vaneechoutte M, Guschin A, Van Simaey L, Gansemans Y, Van Nieuwerburgh F, Cools P. Emended description of Gardnerella vaginalis and description of Gardnerella leopoldii sp. nov., Gardnerella piotii sp. nov. and Gardnerella swidsinskii sp. nov., with delineation of 13 genomic species within the genus Gardnerella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:679-687.

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Record number: 800132