Species ***Mycobacterium* *noviomagense***

Name: Mycobacterium noviomagense van Ingen et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: no.vi.o.ma.gen’se. L. neut. adj. noviomagense, pertaining to Noviomagus, the Roman name of the major city Nijmegen in the endemic region in the Netherlands and the location of the reference hospital

Pronunciation, gender: … no-wi-o-ma-GEN-se, neuter

Type strain: CIP 109766; DSM 45145; JCM 16367; NLA000500338

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU239955 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: van Ingen J, Boeree MJ, de Lange WC, de Haas PE, van der Zanden AG, Mijs W, Rigouts L, Dekhuijzen PN, van Soolingen D. Mycobacterium noviomagense sp. nov.; clinical relevance evaluated in 17 patients. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:845-849. 🇳🇱

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1557-1558.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 1

Emendations:
- Nouioui et al. 2018 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. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+". — 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 1 time 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 pathogenicity 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. 🇬🇧

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

Assigned by: van Ingen J, Boeree MJ, de Lange WC, de Haas PE, van der Zanden AG, Mijs W, Rigouts L, Dekhuijzen PN, van Soolingen D. Mycobacterium noviomagense sp. nov.; clinical relevance evaluated in 17 patients. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:845-849. 🇳🇱

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Species Mycobacterium noviomagense

Species ***Mycobacterium* *noviomagense***