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Species Lactobacillus delbrueckii
Name: Lactobacillus delbrueckii (Leichmann 1896) Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980)
Basonym: "Bacillus delbruecki" Leichmann 1896
Etymology: del.bruec’ki.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. delbrueckii, of Delbrück, named for M. Delbrück, a German bacteriologist
Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … del-BRU͡EK-ki-i, masculine
Type strain: ATCC 9649; CCUG 34222; CIP 57.8; DSM 20074; IFO 3202; JCM 1012; LMG 6412; NBIMCC 2449; NBRC 3202; NCDO 213; NCFB 213; NCIB 8130; NCIMB 8130; NRRL B-763; VKM B-1596
Conduct genome-based taxonomy at
16S rRNA gene:
M58814
Analyse
FASTA
Effective publication: Beijerinck MW. Sur les ferments lactiques de l'industrie. Archives Néerlandaises des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles (Section 2) 1901; 6:212-243.
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: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind "Bacillus delbruecki" Leichmann 1896 homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
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Notes:
- 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Beijerinck MW. Sur les ferments lactiques de l'industrie. Archives Néerlandaises des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles (Section 2) 1901; 6:212-243.
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — 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 1532 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.
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🧍 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 (Reading) 2022; 168:0.
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- 🧍 In the judicial Opinion 38, this name is cited as Lactobacillus delbrueckii Beijerinck 1901. Publication: Lapage SP, Sneath PHA, Lessel EF, Skerman VBD, Seeliger HPR, Clark WA. International code of nomenclature of bacteria (1990 revision). American Society for Microbiology, Washington, 1992.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 7
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. allosunkii Goo and Li 2024 validly published under the ICNP correct name Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus (Orla-Jensen 1919) Weiss et al. 1984 validly published under the ICNP correct name Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. delbrueckii (Leichmann 1896) Weiss et al. 1984 validly published under the ICNP correct name Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. indicus Dellaglio et al. 2005 validly published under the ICNP correct name Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. jakobsenii Adimpong et al. 2013 validly published under the ICNP correct name Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis (Orla-Jensen 1919) Weiss et al. 1984 validly published under the ICNP correct name Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. sunkii Kudo et al. 2012 validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name synonym
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Parent taxon: Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by: Beijerinck MW. Sur les ferments lactiques de l'industrie. Archives Néerlandaises des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles (Section 2) 1901; 6:212-243.
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Record number: 777291
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