Name: Dermabacter jinjuensis Park et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: jin.ju.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. jinjuensis, of Jinju, from where the type strain was isolated

Pronunciation, gender: jin-ju-EN-sis, masculine

Type strain: 32; DSM 101003; NCCP 16133

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KT036432 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Park YK, Lee KM, Lee WK, Cho MJ, Lee HS, Cho YG, Lee YC, Lee WK, Seong WK, Hwang KJ. Dermabacter jinjuensis sp. nov., a novel species of the genus Dermabacter isolated from a clinical specimen. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2573-2577.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3769-3770.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 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 2 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 pathogenicity of the species itself.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is a putative 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.

Parent taxon: Dermabacter Jones and Collins 1989

Assigned by: Park YK, Lee KM, Lee WK, Cho MJ, Lee HS, Cho YG, Lee YC, Lee WK, Seong WK, Hwang KJ. Dermabacter jinjuensis sp. nov., a novel species of the genus Dermabacter isolated from a clinical specimen. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2573-2577.

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Record number: 794255