Species ***Mycobacterium* *arosiense***

Name: Mycobacterium arosiense Bang et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.ro.si.en’se. L. neut. adj. arosiense, pertaining to Arosia, the Latin name of Aarhus, the city in Denmark where the type strain was isolated

Pronunciation, gender: … a-ro-si-EN-se, neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1401; DSM 45069; T1921

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF054881 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bang D, Herlin T, Stegger M, Andersen AB, Torkko P, Tortoli E, Thomsen VO. Mycobacterium arosiense sp. nov., a slowly growing, scotochromogenic species causing osteomyelitis in an immunocompromised child. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2398-2402. 🇩🇰

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:3-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 2

Emendations:
- Nouioui et al. 2018 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. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — 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 6 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 risk group 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. 🇬🇧

Parent taxon: Mycobacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Bang D, Herlin T, Stegger M, Andersen AB, Torkko P, Tortoli E, Thomsen VO. Mycobacterium arosiense sp. nov., a slowly growing, scotochromogenic species causing osteomyelitis in an immunocompromised child. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2398-2402. 🇩🇰

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Species Mycobacterium arosiense

Species ***Mycobacterium* *arosiense***