Species ***Mycobacterium* *grossiae***

Name: Mycobacterium grossiae Paniz-Mondolfi et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: gros’si.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. grossiae, named after Wendy M. Gross in honour of, and in recognition for, significant contributions in mycobacterial research and clinical care

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … GROS-si-a͡e, neuter

Type strain: CIP 111318; DSM 104744; PB739

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM186137 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Paniz-Mondolfi AE, Greninger AL, Ladutko L, Brown-Elliott BA, Vasireddy R, Jakubiec W, Vasireddy S, Wallace RJJ, Simmon KE, Dunn BE, et al. Mycobacterium grossiae sp. nov., a rapidly growing, scotochromogenic species isolated from human clinical respiratory and blood culture specimens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4345-4351. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:471-473.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Mycolicibacterium grossiae (Paniz-Mondolfi et al. 2017) Zhu et al. 2024	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+". — 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 4 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 pathogenicity of the species itself.
- 🧍 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 (Reading) 2022; 168:0. 🇬🇧

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

Assigned by: Paniz-Mondolfi AE, Greninger AL, Ladutko L, Brown-Elliott BA, Vasireddy R, Jakubiec W, Vasireddy S, Wallace RJJ, Simmon KE, Dunn BE, et al. Mycobacterium grossiae sp. nov., a rapidly growing, scotochromogenic species isolated from human clinical respiratory and blood culture specimens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4345-4351. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 796156

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Species Mycobacterium grossiae

Species ***Mycobacterium* *grossiae***