Species ***Mycobacterium* *bohemicum***

Name: Mycobacterium bohemicum Reischl et al. 1998

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: bo.he’mi.cum. M.L. neut. adj. bohemicum, of or belonging to the Czech Republic where the organism was first isolated

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … bo-HE-mi-kum, neuter

Type strain: CIP 105808; CIP 105811; DSM 44277; JCM 12402

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF547901 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Reischl U, Emler S, Horak Z, Kaustova J, Kroppenstedt RM, Lehn N, Naumann L. Mycobacterium bohemicum sp. nov., a new slow-growing scotochromogenic mycobacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1349-1355. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:5-6.

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 Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 2 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "ht+". — 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 12 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: Reischl U, Emler S, Horak Z, Kaustova J, Kroppenstedt RM, Lehn N, Naumann L. Mycobacterium bohemicum sp. nov., a new slow-growing scotochromogenic mycobacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1349-1355. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 778404

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Species Mycobacterium bohemicum

Species ***Mycobacterium* *bohemicum***