Etymology:
bi.fle.xa. L. adv.bis, twice; L. perf. part.flexus -a -um, bent, winding; from L. v.flecto, to bend, to curve; N.L. fem. part. adj.biflexa, bent twice
Gender:
feminine
Type strain:ATCC 23582; Patoc 1; Patoc I; serovar Patoc strain Patoc I
Effective publication:
Noguchi H. MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND NOMENCLATURE OF LEPTOSPIRA (SPIROCHAETA) ICTEROHAEMORRHAGIAE (INADA AND IDO). J Exp Med 1918; 27:575-592.
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
homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
Emendations:
Faine and Stallman 1982
Faine S, Stallman ND. Amended descriptions of the genus Leptospira Noguchi 1917 and the species L. interrogans (Stimson 1907) Wenyon 1926 and L. biflexa (Wolbach and Binger 1914) Noguchi 1918. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1982; 32:461-463.
Hördt et al. 2020
Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.
Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
Notes:
🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.12036 (N = 2).
😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
🧍 According to the CCUG curator, CCUG 5912 was received from ATCC and never processed; was not intended for distribution. — Moore ERB. Personal communication, 2023-05-25.
Assigned by:
Noguchi H. MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND NOMENCLATURE OF LEPTOSPIRA (SPIROCHAETA) ICTEROHAEMORRHAGIAE (INADA AND IDO). J Exp Med 1918; 27:575-592.
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