Species "Candidatus Mycobacterium lepraefelis"

Name: "Candidatus Mycobacterium lepraefelis" O'Brien et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: le.prae.fe’lis. L. fem. n. lepra, leprosy; L. fem. n. feles, cat; N.L. gen. fem. n. lepraefelis, of feline leprosy

Gender: neuter

Nomenclatural type: no type strain designated

Original publication: O'Brien CR, Malik R, Globan M, Reppas G, McCowan C, Fyfe JA. Feline leprosy due to Candidatus 'Mycobacterium lepraefelis': Further clinical and molecular characterisation of eight previously reported cases and an additional 30 cases. J Feline Med Surg 2017; 19:919-932.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

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

Assigned by: O'Brien CR, Malik R, Globan M, Reppas G, McCowan C, Fyfe JA. Feline leprosy due to Candidatus 'Mycobacterium lepraefelis': Further clinical and molecular characterisation of eight previously reported cases and an additional 30 cases. J Feline Med Surg 2017; 19:919-932.

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Record number: 2762

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Species "Candidatus Mycobacterium lepraefelis"