Name: Dysgonomonas hofstadii Lawson et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hof.stad’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. hofstadii, of Hofstad, named after Tor Hofstad, a Norwegian microbiologist, in recognition of his contributions to anaerobic microbiology

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCM 7606; CCUG 54731; JCM 17038; MX 1040

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB588022 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Lawson PA, Carlson P, Wernersson S, Moore ER, Falsen E. Dysgonomonas hofstadii sp. nov., isolated from a human clinical source. Anaerobe 2010; 16:161-164.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 134. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1477-1479.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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 2022; 168:0.

Parent taxon: Dysgonomonas Hofstad et al. 2000

Assigned by: Lawson PA, Carlson P, Wernersson S, Moore ER, Falsen E. Dysgonomonas hofstadii sp. nov., isolated from a human clinical source. Anaerobe 2010; 16:161-164.

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