Name: Escherichia albertii Huys et al. 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: al.ber’ti.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. albertii, of Albert, named after M. John Albert, a microbiologist previously associated with the ICDDR, B, who first described these strains as a group of Hafnia-like diarrhoeagenic isolates in the early 1990s and who also contributed greatly to the study of other diarrhoeagenic bacteria (Albert, 1994; Albert et al., 1991a, 1992a, 2000)

Gender: feminine

Type strain: Albert 19982; CCUG 46494; DSM 17582; LMG 20976

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16S rRNA gene: AJ508775 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Huys G, Cnockaert M, Janda JM, Swings J. Escherichia albertii sp. nov., a diarrhoeagenic species isolated from stool specimens of Bangladeshi children. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:807-810.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1221-1222.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Notes:
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 😷 The risk group for Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "human pathogen". — 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 Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 129 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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.
  • 🧍 Escherichia albertii Huys et al. 2003 was previously known as "Hafnia alvei-like" ICDDRB strains of Albert et al. (ICDDRB = International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Branch in Bangladesh). Publication: Moller V. Distribution of amino acid decarboxylases in Enterobacteriaceae. Acta Pathol Microbiol Scand 1954; 35:259-277.

Parent taxon: Escherichia Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Huys G, Cnockaert M, Janda JM, Swings J. Escherichia albertii sp. nov., a diarrhoeagenic species isolated from stool specimens of Bangladeshi children. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:807-810.

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