Species ***Corynebacterium* *lowii***

Name: Corynebacterium lowii Bernard et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: low’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. lowii, named after the late Canadian microbiologist, Dr Donald Low, for his many contributions to our understanding of 2809 microbiology and infectious diseases in Canada and around the world

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CCUG 65815; LMG 28276; NML 130206; R-50085; TKD4

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KJ938705 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bernard KA, Pacheco AL, Loomer C, Burdz T, Wiebe D, Huynh C, Kaplen B, Olson AB, Cnockaert M, Eguchi H, et al. Corynebacterium lowii sp. nov. and Corynebacterium oculi sp. nov., derived from human clinical disease and an emended description of Corynebacterium mastitidis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2803-2812.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4306-4309.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time 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.
- 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Corynebacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Bernard KA, Pacheco AL, Loomer C, Burdz T, Wiebe D, Huynh C, Kaplen B, Olson AB, Cnockaert M, Eguchi H, et al. Corynebacterium lowii sp. nov. and Corynebacterium oculi sp. nov., derived from human clinical disease and an emended description of Corynebacterium mastitidis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2803-2812.

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Species Corynebacterium lowii

Species ***Corynebacterium* *lowii***