Species ***Mycobacterium* *intermedium***

Name: Mycobacterium intermedium Meier et al. 1993

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: L. neut. adj. intermedium, intermediate, referring to the phylogenetic position of this organism between the rapidly and slowly growing mycobacteria

Gender: neuter

Type strain: 1669/91; ATCC 51848; CCUG 37583; CIP 104542; DSM 44049; JCM 13572

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16S rRNA gene: AF547938 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Meier A, Kirschner P, Schroder KH, Wolters J, Kroppenstedt RM, Bottger EC. Mycobacterium intermedium sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:204-209.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 43, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:625.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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.

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

Assigned by: Meier A, Kirschner P, Schroder KH, Wolters J, Kroppenstedt RM, Bottger EC. Mycobacterium intermedium sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:204-209.

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Record number: 778468

Species Mycobacterium intermedium

Species ***Mycobacterium* *intermedium***