Name: Bordetella tumbae Tazato et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: tum’bae. M.L. gen. fem. n. tumbae, of a tomb, referring to the isolation source of the type strain

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … TUM-ba͡e, feminine

Type strain: JCM 30934; NCIMB 15008; T6713-1-3b

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16S rRNA gene: LC053656 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Tazato N, Handa Y, Nishijima M, Kigawa R, Sano C, Sugiyama J. Novel environmental species isolated from the plaster wall surface of mural paintings in the Takamatsuzuka tumulus: Bordetella muralis sp. nov., Bordetella tumulicola sp. nov. and Bordetella tumbae sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4830-4838. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1600-1602.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 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 1 time 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.

Parent taxon: Bordetella Moreno-López 1952 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Tazato N, Handa Y, Nishijima M, Kigawa R, Sano C, Sugiyama J. Novel environmental species isolated from the plaster wall surface of mural paintings in the Takamatsuzuka tumulus: Bordetella muralis sp. nov., Bordetella tumulicola sp. nov. and Bordetella tumbae sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4830-4838. 🇯🇵

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Record number: 793640