Species ***Mycobacterium* *immunogenum***

Name: Mycobacterium immunogenum Wilson et al. 2001

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: im.mu.no’ge.num. N.L. neut. adj. immunogenum, eliciting an immune response

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: my-ko-bak-TE-ri-um im-mu-NO-ge-num, neuter

Type strain: ATCC 700505; BH 29; DSM 45594; DSM 45595; MC 779

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HE654001 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wilson RW, Steingrube VA, Bottger EC, Springer B, Brown-Elliott BA, Vincent V, Jost KCJ, Zhang Y, Garcia MJ, Chiu SH, et al. Mycobacterium immunogenum sp. nov., a novel species related to Mycobacterium abscessus and associated with clinical disease, pseudo-outbreaks and contaminated metalworking fluids: an international cooperative study on mycobacterial taxonomy. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1751-1764. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1947-1948.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Mycobacteroides immunogenum (Wilson et al. 2001) Gupta et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

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 Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "human pathogen". — 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 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — 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 78 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
- 🙆 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 risk group of the species itself.
- 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established 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. 🇬🇧
- 🧍 According to StrainInfo and to Dr. Richard Wallace (cited by H.P. Klenk, DSMZ), the strain CIP 106684 (cited as the type strain of Mycobacterium immunogenum in the paper by Wilson et al. 2001) is not the true type strain of Mycobacterium immunogenum. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592. 🇫🇷

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

Assigned by: Wilson RW, Steingrube VA, Bottger EC, Springer B, Brown-Elliott BA, Vincent V, Jost KCJ, Zhang Y, Garcia MJ, Chiu SH, et al. Mycobacterium immunogenum sp. nov., a novel species related to Mycobacterium abscessus and associated with clinical disease, pseudo-outbreaks and contaminated metalworking fluids: an international cooperative study on mycobacterial taxonomy. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1751-1764. 🇺🇸

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Species Mycobacterium immunogenum

Species ***Mycobacterium* *immunogenum***