Species ***Corynebacterium* *minutissimum***

Name: Corynebacterium minutissimum (ex Sarkany et al. 1962) Collins and Jones 1983

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov., nom. rev.

Etymology: mi.nu.tis.si.mum. L. neut. adj. minutissimum, very small

Gender: neuter

Type strain: 1983; ATCC 23348; CCUG 541; CIP 100652; Collins & Jones; DSM 20651; IFO 15361; JCM 9387; NBRC 15361; NCTC 10288

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16S rRNA gene: X84678 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Collins MD, Jones D. Corynebacterium minutissimum sp. nov., nom. rev. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1983; 33:870-871.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

Emendations:
- Yassin et al. 2002 Yassin AF, Steiner U, Ludwig W. Corynebacterium aurimucosum sp. nov. and emended description of Corynebacterium minutissimum Collins and Jones (1983). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1001-1005. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1077-1079.
  Notes:
  - In the paper by Yassin et al. 2002, the strain NRRL B-24143 is erroneously cited as the type strain of Corynebacterium minutissimum. The strain NRRL B-24143 is the type strain of Corynebacterium aurimucosum.
- 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:
- According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established 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: Collins MD, Jones D. Corynebacterium minutissimum sp. nov., nom. rev. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1983; 33:870-871.

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Species Corynebacterium minutissimum