Species ***Mycobacterium* *asiaticum***

Name: Mycobacterium asiaticum Weiszfeiler et al. 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.si.a’ti.cum N.L. neut. adj. asiaticum, Asiatic, of Asia

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 25276; CCUG 29115; CIP 106809; DSM 44297; JCM 6409

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF547896 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Weiszfeiler G, Karasseva V, Karczag E. A new mycobacterium species: Mycobacterium asiaticum n. sp. Acta Microbiol Acad Sci Hung 1971; 18:247-252.

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

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 full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht".

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

Assigned by: Weiszfeiler G, Karasseva V, Karczag E. A new mycobacterium species: Mycobacterium asiaticum n. sp. Acta Microbiol Acad Sci Hung 1971; 18:247-252.

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Record number: 778396

Species Mycobacterium asiaticum

Species ***Mycobacterium* *asiaticum***