Species ***Mycobacterium* *branderi***

Name: Mycobacterium branderi Koukila-Kähkölä et al. 1995

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: bran’de.ri. N.L. gen. masc. n. branderi, of Brander, referring to Eljas Brander, the former head of the Tuberculosis Laboratory of the National Public Health Institute, Finland, who collected the strains

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: my-ko-bak-TE-ri-um BRAN-de-ri, neuter

Type strain: ATCC 51789; CIP 104592; DSM 44624; JCM 12687

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF480574 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Koukila-Kahkola P, Springer B, Bottger EC, Paulin L, Jantzen E, Katila ML. Mycobacterium branderi sp. nov., a new potential human pathogen. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:549-553.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 45, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:881.

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 Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "human pathogen". — The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. 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 13 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
- 🙆 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: Koukila-Kahkola P, Springer B, Bottger EC, Paulin L, Jantzen E, Katila ML. Mycobacterium branderi sp. nov., a new potential human pathogen. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:549-553.

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Species Mycobacterium branderi

Species ***Mycobacterium* *branderi***