Species ***Mycobacterium* *kubicae***

Name: Mycobacterium kubicae Floyd et al. 2000

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ku.bi’cae. N.L. gen. masc. n. kubicae, of Kubica, to honour the contributions of George P. Kubica, an exceptional American mycobacteriologist, mentor and teacher

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 700732; CDC 94-1078; CIP 106428; DSM 44627; JCM 13573

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HM022200 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Floyd MM, Gross WM, Bonato DA, Silcox VA, Smithwick RW, Metchock B, Crawford JT, Butler WR. Mycobacterium kubicae sp. nov., a slowly growing, scotochromogenic Mycobacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1811-1816.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1955.

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.

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
- 🧍 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 2022; 168:0.

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

Assigned by: Floyd MM, Gross WM, Bonato DA, Silcox VA, Smithwick RW, Metchock B, Crawford JT, Butler WR. Mycobacterium kubicae sp. nov., a slowly growing, scotochromogenic Mycobacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1811-1816.

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Species Mycobacterium kubicae

Species ***Mycobacterium* *kubicae***