Species ***Mycobacterium* *fragae***

Name: Mycobacterium fragae Ramos et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fra’gae. N.L. gen. masc. n. fragae, of Fraga, referring to the doctor and researcher after whom the Centro de Referência Professor Hélio Fraga, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundaçāo Oswaldo Cruz was named and where this species was characterized and described

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CMRVS P4051; DSM 45731; Fiocruz-INCQS/CMRVSP4051; HF8705

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JQ898451 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ramos JP, Campos CE, Caldas PC, Ferreira NV, da Silva MV, Redner P, Campelo CL, Vale SF, Barroso EC, Medeiros RF, et al. Mycobacterium fragae sp. nov., a non-chromogenic species isolated from human respiratory specimens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2583-2587.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3549-3550.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

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 = 1, note = "+".
- 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
- 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is a putative human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology 2022; 168:0.

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

Assigned by: Ramos JP, Campos CE, Caldas PC, Ferreira NV, da Silva MV, Redner P, Campelo CL, Vale SF, Barroso EC, Medeiros RF, et al. Mycobacterium fragae sp. nov., a non-chromogenic species isolated from human respiratory specimens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2583-2587.

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Species Mycobacterium fragae

Species ***Mycobacterium* *fragae***