Name: Bosea vestrisii La Scola et al. 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ves.tri’si.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. vestrisii, of Vestris, to honour Guy Vestris, a technician in the Unité des Rickettsies, for his many contributions to the isolation of obligate intracellular bacteria, especially Rickettsiaceae

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 34635; CCUG 43114; CIP 106340; DSM 21229

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: AF288306 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: La Scola B, Mallet MN, Grimont PA, Raoult D. Bosea eneae sp. nov., Bosea massiliensis sp. nov. and Bosea vestrisii sp. nov., isolated from hospital water supplies, and emendation of the genus Bosea (Das et al. 1996). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:15-20.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:629-630.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Bosea Das et al. 1996

Assigned by: La Scola B, Mallet MN, Grimont PA, Raoult D. Bosea eneae sp. nov., Bosea massiliensis sp. nov. and Bosea vestrisii sp. nov., isolated from hospital water supplies, and emendation of the genus Bosea (Das et al. 1996). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:15-20.

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Record number: 783545