Species ***Corynebacterium* *appendicis***

Name: Corynebacterium appendicis Yassin et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ap.pen.di.cis. L. fem. n. appendix (gen. appendicis), that which hangs to any thing, an appendage; L. gen. fem. n. appendicis, of an appendage, intended to mean pertaining to appendicitis, from which the patient from whom the clinical material was taken for isolation of the organism was suffering

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CCUG 48298; DSM 44531; IMMIB R-3491; JCM 11765; NRRL B-24151

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ314919 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yassin AF, Steiner U, Ludwig W. Corynebacterium appendicis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1165-1169.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1439-1440.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Emendations:
- Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+". — 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 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
- 🧍 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: Corynebacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Yassin AF, Steiner U, Ludwig W. Corynebacterium appendicis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1165-1169.

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Species Corynebacterium appendicis

Species ***Corynebacterium* *appendicis***