Species Mycobacterium mengxiangliae

Name: Mycobacterium mengxiangliae corrig. (Cheng et al. 2021) Göker et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Mycolicibacterium mengxiangliae corrig. Cheng et al. 2021

Etymology: meng.xi.an’gli.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. mengxiangliae, of Dr Xiangli Meng, for her great contribution to the study of isolation and identification work in novel species among Qinghai-Tibet Plateau samples

Pronunciation, gender: men͡g-xi-AN-gli-a͡e, neuter

Type strain: CGMCC 1.1993; DSM 106172; Z-34

16S rRNA gene: MN861241 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Göker M, Christensen H, Fingerle V, Kostovski M, Margos G, Moore ERB, Oren A, Patrick S, Reischl U, Vázquez-Boland JA. List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance: report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Mitigating Changes in Prokaryotic Nomenclature. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2025; 75:0.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

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

Assigned by: Göker M, Christensen H, Fingerle V, Kostovski M, Margos G, Moore ERB, Oren A, Patrick S, Reischl U, Vázquez-Boland JA. List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance: report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Mitigating Changes in Prokaryotic Nomenclature. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2025; 75:0.

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