Species ***Mycobacterium* *lacus***

Name: Mycobacterium lacus Turenne et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: la’cus. L. gen. masc. n. lacus, of a lake, where the organism was acquired

Pronunciation, gender: LA-kus, neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-323; DSM 44577; JCM 15657; NRCM 0-255

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF406783 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Turenne C, Chedore P, Wolfe J, Jamieson F, Broukhanski G, May K, Kabani A. Mycobacterium lacus sp. nov., a novel slowly growing, non-chromogenic clinical isolate. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:2135-2140. 🇨🇦

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

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 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 4 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: Turenne C, Chedore P, Wolfe J, Jamieson F, Broukhanski G, May K, Kabani A. Mycobacterium lacus sp. nov., a novel slowly growing, non-chromogenic clinical isolate. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:2135-2140. 🇨🇦

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Species Mycobacterium lacus

Species ***Mycobacterium* *lacus***