Name:Mycobacteriummalmesburyense Gcebe et al. 2017
Category, proposed as: species, sp. nov.
Etymology:mal.mes.bu.ry.en’se.N.L. neut. adj.malmesburyense, pertaining to Malmesbury, after a town (Malmesbury) in South Africa, where one of the isolates (the type strain) of this species originated from
Valid publication:
Gcebe N, Rutten V, Pittius NGV, Naicker B, Michel A. Mycobacterium malmesburyense sp. nov., a non-tuberculous species of the genus Mycobacterium revealed by multiple gene sequence characterization. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:832-838. 🇿🇦
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2079-2080.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status:
correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)
😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "t+". — 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 2 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 pathogenicity of the species itself.
🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018).Publication:
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. 🇩🇪
Assigned by:
Gcebe N, Rutten V, Pittius NGV, Naicker B, Michel A. Mycobacterium malmesburyense sp. nov., a non-tuberculous species of the genus Mycobacterium revealed by multiple gene sequence characterization. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:832-838. 🇿🇦
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