Name: Mycobacterium heckeshornense Roth et al. 2001
Etymology: he.cke.shorn.en’se. N.L. neut. adj. heckeshornense, of or belonging to Heckeshorn, a peninsula in Berlin, Germany, the location of the hospital in which the strain was found
Type strain: CCUG 51897; CIP 107347; DSM 44428; JCM 15655; S369
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16S rRNA gene: AF174290 Analyse FASTA
Effective publication: Roth A, Reischl U, Schonfeld N, Naumann L, Emler S, Fischer M, Mauch H, Loddenkemper R, Kroppenstedt RM. Mycobacterium heckeshornense sp. nov., A new pathogenic slowly growing Mycobacterium sp. Causing cavitary lung disease in an immunocompetent patient. J Clin Microbiol 2000; 38:4102-4107.
IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 79. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:263-265.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
Parent taxon: Mycobacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by: Roth A, Reischl U, Schonfeld N, Naumann L, Emler S, Fischer M, Mauch H, Loddenkemper R, Kroppenstedt RM. Mycobacterium heckeshornense sp. nov., A new pathogenic slowly growing Mycobacterium sp. Causing cavitary lung disease in an immunocompetent patient. J Clin Microbiol 2000; 38:4102-4107.
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