Name: Lawsonella clevelandensis Bell et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: cle.ve.lan.den’sis. N.L. fem. adj. clevelandensis, of Cleveland, Ohio, the city of origin of the type strain

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … kle-we-lan-DEN-sis, feminine

Type strain: CCUG 66657; DSM 45743; X1036

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JX877776 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bell ME, Bernard KA, Harrington SM, Patel NB, Tucker TA, Metcalfe MG, McQuiston JR. Lawsonella clevelandensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the suborder Corynebacterineae isolated from human abscesses. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2929-2935. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4306-4309.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Lawsonella Bell et al. 2016. Publication: Bell ME, Bernard KA, Harrington SM, Patel NB, Tucker TA, Metcalfe MG, McQuiston JR. Lawsonella clevelandensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the suborder Corynebacterineae isolated from human abscesses. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2929-2935. 🇺🇸
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+". — 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 21 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.
  • 🧍 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. 🇩🇪

Parent taxon: Lawsonella Bell et al. 2016

Assigned by: Bell ME, Bernard KA, Harrington SM, Patel NB, Tucker TA, Metcalfe MG, McQuiston JR. Lawsonella clevelandensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the suborder Corynebacterineae isolated from human abscesses. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2929-2935. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 794323