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Species Bacteroides polypragmatus
Name: Bacteroides polypragmatus Patel and Breuil 1982
Etymology: po.ly.prag.ma.tus. Gr. masc./fem. n. polypragmatos, busy about many things; N.L. masc. adj. polypragmatus, versatile (reflecting its activity on many carbohydrates)
Effective publication: Patel GB, Breuil C. Isolation and characterization of Bacteroides polypragmatus sp. nov., an isolate which produces carbon dioxide, hydrogen and acetic acid during growth on various organic substrates. In: Moo-Young M, Robinson CW (eds), Advances in Biotechnology, Pergamon Press, Toronto, 1981, p. 291-296.
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Validation list no. 8. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1982; 32:266-268. 
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)
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Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — 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 2 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙆 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 genus.
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🧍 According to Yarza et al. (2013), an "orphan species with designated type strains that were either not deposited in culture collections or whose type strain is currently not available from a recognized culture collection. NRC no longer operating.".
Publication:
Yarza P, Sproer C, Swiderski J, Mrotzek N, Spring S, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Lang E, et al. Sequencing orphan species initiative (SOS): Filling the gaps in the 16S rRNA gene sequence database for all species with validly published names. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:69-73.
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🧍 The type strain NRC 2288 is not available (NRC NRCC no longer operating).
Publication:
Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.
Parent taxon: Bacteroides Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by: Patel GB, Breuil C. Isolation and characterization of Bacteroides polypragmatus sp. nov., an isolate which produces carbon dioxide, hydrogen and acetic acid during growth on various organic substrates. In: Moo-Young M, Robinson CW (eds), Advances in Biotechnology, Pergamon Press, Toronto, 1981, p. 291-296.
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Record number: 783456
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