Species ***Mycobacterium* *holsaticum***

Name: Mycobacterium holsaticum Richter et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hol.sa’ti.cum. M.L. neut. adj. holsaticum, of or belonging to Holsatia, the German region of Holstein, the location of the institute in which the strains were first analyzed

Pronunciation, gender: hol-SA-ti-kum, neuter

Type strain: 1406; CCUG 46266; DMS 44478; DSM 44478; JCM 12374

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ310467 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Richter E, Niemann S, Gloeckner FO, Pfyffer GE, Rusch-Gerdes S. Mycobacterium holsaticum sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1991-1996. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:375-376.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Mycolicibacterium holsaticum (Richter et al. 2002) Gupta et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — 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 6 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: Richter E, Niemann S, Gloeckner FO, Pfyffer GE, Rusch-Gerdes S. Mycobacterium holsaticum sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1991-1996. 🇩🇪

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Species Mycobacterium holsaticum

Species ***Mycobacterium* *holsaticum***