Name:Brevibacteriummetallicum corrig. Román-Ponce et al. 2025
Category: Species
Proposed as: sp. nov.
Etymology:me.tal’li.cum.L. neut. adj.metallicum, referring to the fact that the bacterium is resistant to various heavy metals (masculine metallicus also as noun)
Effective publication:
Roman-Ponce B, Li YH, Vasquez-Murrieta MS, Sui XH, Chen WF, Estrada-de Los Santos P, Wang ET. Brevibacterium metallicus sp. nov., an endophytic bacterium isolated from roots of Prosopis laegivata grown at the edge of a mine tailing in Mexico. Arch Microbiol 2015; 197:1151-1158. 🇲🇽
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 225. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6863.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status:
correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)
😩 Deposit incorrectly indicated in some sources as representing the type strain of this taxon: LMG 8673.
🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2025-10-21.
🙆 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.
Assigned by:
Roman-Ponce B, Li YH, Vasquez-Murrieta MS, Sui XH, Chen WF, Estrada-de Los Santos P, Wang ET. Brevibacterium metallicus sp. nov., an endophytic bacterium isolated from roots of Prosopis laegivata grown at the edge of a mine tailing in Mexico. Arch Microbiol 2015; 197:1151-1158. 🇲🇽
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