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Species Mycobacterium marinum

Name: Mycobacterium marinum Aronson 1926 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ma.ri’num L. neut. adj. marinum, of the sea, marine

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 927; CCUG 20998; CCUG 27843; CIP 104528; DSM 43225; DSM 44344; JCM 12275; NCTC 2275

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16S rRNA gene: AF271347 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Aronson JD. Spontaneous tuberculosis in salt water fish. Journal of Infectious Diseases 1926; 39:314-320.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

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

Assigned by: Aronson JD. Spontaneous tuberculosis in salt water fish. Journal of Infectious Diseases 1926; 39:314-320.

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