Species ***Arthrobacter* *woluwensis***

Name: Arthrobacter woluwensis Funke et al. 1997

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: wo.lu.wen’sis. N.L. masc. adj. woluwensis, of or belonging to Woluwe, a town near Brussels, Belgium, where the type strain was isolated from a patient

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ar-t^hro-BAK-ter wo-lu-WEN-sis, masculine

Type strain: ATCC 700220; CCUG 36790; CIP 104908; CUL 1808; DSM 10495; JCM 11679

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X93353 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Funke G, Hutson RA, Bernard KA, Pfyffer GE, Wauters G, Collins MD. Isolation of Arthrobacter spp. from clinical specimens and description of Arthrobacter cumminsii sp. nov. and Arthrobacter woluwensis sp. nov. J Clin Microbiol 1996; 34:2356-2363. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 60. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:242.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 2

Notes:
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.01470 (N = 22).
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — 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 = 2. — 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 15 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the species itself.
- 🧍 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 (Reading) 2022; 168:0. 🇬🇧
- 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. 🇩🇪

Parent taxon: Arthrobacter Conn and Dimmick 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Funke G, Hutson RA, Bernard KA, Pfyffer GE, Wauters G, Collins MD. Isolation of Arthrobacter spp. from clinical specimens and description of Arthrobacter cumminsii sp. nov. and Arthrobacter woluwensis sp. nov. J Clin Microbiol 1996; 34:2356-2363. 🇩🇪

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Species Arthrobacter woluwensis

Species ***Arthrobacter* *woluwensis***