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Species Corynebacterium meitnerae

Name: Corynebacterium meitnerae Cappelli et al. 2023

Category, proposed as: species, sp. nov.

Etymology: meit’ne.rae. N.L. gen. fem. n. meitnerae, of Meitner, in honor of Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist, who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics and, together with Otto Hahn and Fritz Straßmann, discovered the nuclear fission

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ko-ry-ne-bak-TE-ri-um ME͡IT-ne-ra͡e, neuter

Type strain: c8Ua_172; CCP 75; DSM 113406

16S rRNA gene: JAKMUS010000028 Analysetree FASTA download

Effective publication: Cappelli EA, Ksiezarek M, Wolf J, Neumann-Schaal M, Ribeiro TG, Peixe L. Expanding the Bacterial Diversity of the Female Urinary Microbiome: Description of Eight New Corynebacterium Species. Microorganisms 2023; 11:388. 🇵🇹

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 211. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5845.

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 2026-08-13. 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 2026-06-11.
    • 🙆 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: Corynebacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Cappelli EA, Ksiezarek M, Wolf J, Neumann-Schaal M, Ribeiro TG, Peixe L. Expanding the Bacterial Diversity of the Female Urinary Microbiome: Description of Eight New Corynebacterium Species. Microorganisms 2023; 11:388. 🇵🇹

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Record number: 36319

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