Name: Murdochiella asaccharolytica Ulger-Toprak et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.sac.cha.ro.ly’ti.ca. Gr. pref. a-, not (inseparable prefix); Gr. neut. n. sakchar, sugar; N.L. fem. adj. lytica, able to dissolve, able to loose; from Gr. fem. adj. lytikê, able to loosen; N.L. fem. adj. asaccharolytica, not digesting sugar

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1631; CCUG 55976; DSM 23919; WAL 1855C

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: EU483153 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ulger-Toprak N, Liu C, Summanen PH, Finegold SM. Murdochiella asaccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-stain-positive, anaerobic coccus isolated from human wound specimens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1013-1016.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1715-1716.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Murdochiella Ulger-Toprak et al. 2010. Publication: Ulger-Toprak N, Liu C, Summanen PH, Finegold SM. Murdochiella asaccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-stain-positive, anaerobic coccus isolated from human wound specimens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1013-1016.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 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: Murdochiella Ulger-Toprak et al. 2010

Assigned by: Ulger-Toprak N, Liu C, Summanen PH, Finegold SM. Murdochiella asaccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-stain-positive, anaerobic coccus isolated from human wound specimens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1013-1016.

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Record number: 788528