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

Gender: masculine

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

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

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

Risk group: 1

• 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".

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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