Name: Fretibacterium fastidiosum Vartoukian et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fas.ti.di.o’sum. L. neut. adj. fastidiosum, fastidious, referring to the nutritional requirements of the organism

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 25557; JCM 16858; SGP1

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16S rRNA gene: GQ149247 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Vartoukian SR, Downes J, Palmer RM, Wade WG. Fretibacterium fastidiosum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the human oral cavity. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:458-463.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1581-1583.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Fretibacterium Vartoukian et al. 2013. Publication: Vartoukian SR, Downes J, Palmer RM, Wade WG. Fretibacterium fastidiosum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the human oral cavity. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:458-463.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 30 times 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: Fretibacterium Vartoukian et al. 2013

Assigned by: Vartoukian SR, Downes J, Palmer RM, Wade WG. Fretibacterium fastidiosum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the human oral cavity. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:458-463.

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Record number: 790531