Species ***Mycobacterium* *haemophilum***

Name: Mycobacterium haemophilum Sompolinsky et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: Gr. n. haima, blood (Latin transliteration haema); N.L. neut. adj. philum, friend, loving; from Gr. neut. adj. philon, friend; N.L. neut. adj. haemophilum, blood loving

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 29548; CCUG 47452; CIP 105049; DSM 44634; JCM 15465; NCTC 11185

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16S rRNA gene: AF547932 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Sompolinsky D, Lagziel A, Naveh D, Yankilevitz L. M. haemophilum sp. nov., a new pathogen of humans. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:67-75.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

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 full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht".

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

Assigned by: Sompolinsky D, Lagziel A, Naveh D, Yankilevitz L. M. haemophilum sp. nov., a new pathogen of humans. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:67-75.

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Record number: 778457

Species Mycobacterium haemophilum

Species ***Mycobacterium* *haemophilum***