Species Flavobacterium meningosepticum

Name: Flavobacterium meningosepticum King 1959 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.nin.go.sep’ti.cum. Gr. fem. n. mêninx (gen. mêningos), meninges, membrane covering the brain; Gr. masc. adj. sêptikos, putrefactive; N.L. neut. adj. meningosepticum, apparently referring to association of the bacterium with both meningitis and septicaemia, but not septic meningitis as the name implies

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 13253; CCUG 214; CIP 60.57; DSM 2800; IFO 12535; JCM 21065; LMG 12279; NBRC 12535; NCTC 10016

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ704540 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: King EO. Studies on a group of previously unclassified bacteria associated with meningitis in infants. Am J Clin Pathol 1959; 31:241-247.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Elizabethkingia meningoseptica (King 1959) Kim et al. 2005

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Chryseobacterium meningosepticum (King 1959) Vandamme et al. 1994	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica (King 1959) Kim et al. 2005	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- Flavobacterium meningosepticum is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Flavobacterium.
- The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht".

Parent taxon: Flavobacterium Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: King EO. Studies on a group of previously unclassified bacteria associated with meningitis in infants. Am J Clin Pathol 1959; 31:241-247.

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Record number: 776254

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