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Species Lactobacillus delbrueckii

Name: Lactobacillus delbrueckii corrig. (Leichmann 1896) Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category, proposed as: species, comb. nov.

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: lak-to-ba-KIL-lus 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

16S rRNA gene: M58814 Analysetree FASTA download

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)

Risk group: 1

  • Notes:
    • 😷 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 1641 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
    • 🙆 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.
    • 🧍 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. 🇬🇧
    • 🧍 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.

Subdivision:

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

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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