Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Mycobacterium attenuatum

Name: Mycobacterium attenuatum Tagini et al. 2019

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: at.te.nu.a’tum. L. neut. adj. attenuatum, attenuated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CCUG 72127; DSM 107153; MK41

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16S rRNA gene: LS999934 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Tagini F, Aeby S, Bertelli C, Droz S, Casanova C, Prod'hom G, Jaton K, Greub G. Phylogenomics reveal that Mycobacterium kansasii subtypes are species-level lineages. Description of Mycobacterium pseudokansasii sp. nov., Mycobacterium innocens sp. nov. and Mycobacterium attenuatum sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1696-1704.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 69, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:2630-2631.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

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

Assigned by: Tagini F, Aeby S, Bertelli C, Droz S, Casanova C, Prod'hom G, Jaton K, Greub G. Phylogenomics reveal that Mycobacterium kansasii subtypes are species-level lineages. Description of Mycobacterium pseudokansasii sp. nov., Mycobacterium innocens sp. nov. and Mycobacterium attenuatum sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1696-1704.

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Record number: 800835
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