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

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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.
- 🎓 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***