Species Corynebacterium pyogenes

Name: Corynebacterium pyogenes (Glage 1903) Eberson 1918 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Bacillus pyogenes" Glage 1903

Etymology: py.o.ge.nes. Gr. neut. n. pyon, discharge from a sore, pus (Latin transliteration pyum); Gr. suff. -genes, producing; from Gr. ind. v. gennaô, to produce; N.L. part. adj. pyogenes, pus-producing

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 19411; C-100; CCUG 13230; CIP 103129; DSM 20630; LMG 16162; NCTC 5224

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16S rRNA gene: X79225 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: synonym

Correct name: Trueperella pyogenes (Glage 1903) Yassin et al. 2011

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Bacillus pyogenes" Glage 1903	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
Actinomyces pyogenes (Glage 1903) Collins and Jones 1983	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
Arcanobacterium pyogenes (Glage 1903) Pascual Ramos et al. 1997	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Actinomyces pyogenes (Glage 1903) Reddy et al. 1982	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Trueperella pyogenes (Glage 1903) Yassin et al. 2011	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- Corynebacterium pyogenes is the correct name if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Corynebacterium.
- The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht".

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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