Species ***Mycobacterium* *malmesburyense***

Name: Mycobacterium malmesburyense Gcebe et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: 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

Pronunciation, gender: … mal-mes-bu-ry-EN-se, neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-2759; CIP 110822; WCM 7299

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KJ873241 Analyse FASTA

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)

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Mycolicibacterium malmesburyense (Gcebe et al. 2017) Gupta et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. 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 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.
- 🧍 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. 🇩🇪

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

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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Record number: 795179

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Species Mycobacterium malmesburyense

Species ***Mycobacterium* *malmesburyense***