Species ***Corynebacterium* *pseudotuberculosis***

Name: Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (Buchanan 1911) Eberson 1918 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Bacillus pseudotuberculosis" Buchanan 1911

Etymology: pseu.do.tu.ber.cu.lo.sis. Gr. masc./fem. adj. pseudês, false; N.L. gen. fem. n. tuberculosis, tuberculosis; N.L. gen. fem. n. pseudotuberculosis, of false tuberculosis

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 19410; CCUG 2806; CIP 102968; DSM 20689; IFO 15363; JCM 9389; NBRC 15363; NCTC 3450

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: D38579 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Eberson F. A bacteriologic study of the diphtheroid organisms with special reference to Hodgkin's disease. Journal of Infectious Diseases 1918; 23:1-42.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Bacillus pseudotuberculosis" Buchanan 1911	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

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:
- 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: Eberson F. A bacteriologic study of the diphtheroid organisms with special reference to Hodgkin's disease. Journal of Infectious Diseases 1918; 23:1-42.

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Species Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis

Species ***Corynebacterium* *pseudotuberculosis***