Name: Dermabacter hominis corrig. Jones and Collins 1989

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ho’mi.nis. L. gen. masc. n. hominis, of man, signifying the isolation of strains from human skin

Pronunciation, gender: HO-mi-nis, masculine

Type strain: ATCC 49369; CCUG 32998; CIP 105144; DSM 7083; JCM 7448; NCFB 2769; NCIMB 13131; Strain S69

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16S rRNA gene: X91034 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Jones D, Collins MD. Taxonomic studies on some human cutaneous coryneform bacteria: description of Dermabacter hominis gen. nov., sp. nov. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 1988; 51:51-56.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 28. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1989; 39:93-94.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Dermabacter hominus Jones and Collins 1989	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• 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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Dermabacter Jones and Collins 1989. Publication: Jones D, Collins MD. Taxonomic studies on some human cutaneous coryneform bacteria: description of Dermabacter hominis gen. nov., sp. nov. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 1988; 51:51-56.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "PIIC". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+". — 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 31 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🙆 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 species itself.
  • 🧍 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 (Reading) 2022; 168:0.
  • 🧍 Misspelled in Validation List No 28 (hominus). Publication: Anonymous. Validation list no. 28. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1989; 39:93-94.
  • 🧍 Dermabacter hominis Jones and Collins 1989 was previously known as CDC coryneform groups 3 and 5. Publication: Coyle MB, Lipsky BA. Coryneform bacteria in infectious diseases: clinical and laboratory aspects. Clin Microbiol Rev 1990; 3:227-246.
  • 🧍 In Validation List no. 28, this name is erroneously cited as Dermabacter hominus (sic). Publication: Euzeby JP, Kudo T. Corrigenda to the validation lists. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1933-1938.

Parent taxon: Dermabacter Jones and Collins 1989

Assigned by: Jones D, Collins MD. Taxonomic studies on some human cutaneous coryneform bacteria: description of Dermabacter hominis gen. nov., sp. nov. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 1988; 51:51-56.

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