Name: Bisgaardia hudsonensis Foster et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hud.so.nen’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. hudsonensis, from Hudson Bay, the area of Canada where the strains originated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 98-D-690B; CCUG 43067; DSM 28231; M327/99/2; NCTC 13475

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ251339 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Foster G, Higgins R, Leclair D, Korczak BM, Mikaelian I, Patterson IA, Kuhnert P. Proposal of Bisgaardia hudsonensis gen. nov., sp. nov. and an additional genomospecies, isolated from seals, as new members of the family Pasteurellaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:3016-3022.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:476-477.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Bisgaardia Foster et al. 2011. Publication: Foster G, Higgins R, Leclair D, Korczak BM, Mikaelian I, Patterson IA, Kuhnert P. Proposal of Bisgaardia hudsonensis gen. nov., sp. nov. and an additional genomospecies, isolated from seals, as new members of the family Pasteurellaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:3016-3022.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Z".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is a putative 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: Bisgaardia Foster et al. 2011

Assigned by: Foster G, Higgins R, Leclair D, Korczak BM, Mikaelian I, Patterson IA, Kuhnert P. Proposal of Bisgaardia hudsonensis gen. nov., sp. nov. and an additional genomospecies, isolated from seals, as new members of the family Pasteurellaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:3016-3022.

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Record number: 789584