Species ***Mycobacterium* *nonchromogenicum***

Name: Mycobacterium nonchromogenicum Tsukamura 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: non.chro.mo.ge’ni.cum. L. prep. non, not; Gr. neut. n. chrôma, color; Gr. ind. v. gennaô, to produce; L. neut. adj. suff. -icum, suffix used with the sense of pertaining to; N.L. neut. adj. nonchromogenicum, intended to mean not producing color

Pronunciation, gender: non-k^hro-mo-GE-ni-kum, neuter

Type strain: ATCC 19530; CCUG 28009; CIP 106811; DSM 44164; JCM 6364; NCTC 10424

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X52928 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Tsukamura M. [A GROUP OF MYCOBACTERIA FROM SOIL SOURCES RESEMBLING NONPHOTOCHROMOGENS (GROUP 3). A DESCRIPTION OF MYCOBACTERIUM NONCHROMOGENICUM]. Igaku To Seibutsugaku 1965; 71:110-113.

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 (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Mycolicibacter nonchromogenicus (Tsukamura 1965) 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 = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — 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, note = "ht". — 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 50 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 risk group of the species itself.
- 🧍 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 (Reading) 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. [A GROUP OF MYCOBACTERIA FROM SOIL SOURCES RESEMBLING NONPHOTOCHROMOGENS (GROUP 3). A DESCRIPTION OF MYCOBACTERIUM NONCHROMOGENICUM]. Igaku To Seibutsugaku 1965; 71:110-113.

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Record number: 778495

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Species Mycobacterium nonchromogenicum

Species ***Mycobacterium* *nonchromogenicum***