Species ***Mycobacterium* *neoaurum***

Name: Mycobacterium neoaurum Tsukamura 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ne.o.au’rum. Gr. masc. adj. neos, new; L. neut. n. aurum, gold; N.L. neut. n. neoaurum, a new gold, intended to mean a new gold-pigmented organism

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 25795; CCUG 37665; CIP 105387; DSM 44074; HAMBI 2273; JCM 6365; NCTC 10818

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF480593 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Tsukamura M. Mycobacterium neoaurum Tsukamura sp. nov. (in Japanese). Medicine and Biology 1972; 85:229-233.

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 under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Mycolicibacterium neoaurum (Tsukamura 1972) Gupta et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "PIIC". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — 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 152 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
- 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology 2022; 168:0.
- 🧍 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: Tsukamura M. Mycobacterium neoaurum Tsukamura sp. nov. (in Japanese). Medicine and Biology 1972; 85:229-233.

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Species Mycobacterium neoaurum

Species ***Mycobacterium* *neoaurum***