Species ***Bacillus* *cytotoxicus***

Name: Bacillus cytotoxicus Guinebretière et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: cy.to.to’xi.cus. Gr. neut. n. [κύτος] kytos, hollow, hold of a ship; N.L. pref. cyto-, prefix denoting pertaining to a cell; N.L. adj. toxicus -a -um, toxic; from N.L. neut. adj. toxicum, poison; N.L. masc. adj. cytotoxicus, cytotoxic, referring to cytotoxin K, an enterotoxin isolated and described from the type strain

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CIP 110041; DSM 22905; NVH 391-98

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM747234 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Guinebretiere MH, Auger S, Galleron N, Contzen M, De Sarrau B, De Buyser ML, Lamberet G, Fagerlund A, Granum PE, Lereclus D, et al. Bacillus cytotoxicus sp. nov. is a novel thermotolerant species of the Bacillus cereus Group occasionally associated with food poisoning. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:31-40.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1211-1213.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Notes:
- A genome-scale phylogenetic analysis of the Bacillus cereus group was conducted by Liu et al. (2015). Publication: Liu Y, Lai Q, Goker M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Wang M, Sun Y, Wang L, Shao Z. Genomic insights into the taxonomic status of the Bacillus cereus group. Sci Rep 2015; 5:14082.
- The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Guinebretiere MH, Auger S, Galleron N, Contzen M, De Sarrau B, De Buyser ML, Lamberet G, Fagerlund A, Granum PE, Lereclus D, et al. Bacillus cytotoxicus sp. nov. is a novel thermotolerant species of the Bacillus cereus Group occasionally associated with food poisoning. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:31-40.

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Record number: 790412

Species Bacillus cytotoxicus

Species ***Bacillus* *cytotoxicus***