Species ***Mycobacterium* *paraense***

Name: Mycobacterium paraense Fusco da Costa et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pa.ra.en’se. N.L. neut. adj. paraense, of, or belonging to, Para’, isolated in the state of Para’, Brazil [probably better: parense]

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CCUG 66121; DSM 46749; IEC26

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KJ948996 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Fusco da Costa AR, Fedrizzi T, Lopes ML, Pecorari M, Oliveira da Costa WL, Giacobazzi E, da Costa Bahia JR, De Sanctis V, Batista Lima KV, Bertorelli R, et al. Characterization of 17 strains belonging to the Mycobacterium simiae complex and description of Mycobacterium paraense sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:656-662.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1397-1399.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

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 = 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 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
- 🪓 Organisms assigned to this species have previously been classified as Mycobacterium simiae Karassova et al. 1965 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Karassova V, Weissfeiler J, Krasznay E. Occurrence of atypical mycobacteria in Macacus rhesus. Acta Microbiol Acad Sci Hung 1965; 12:275-282. Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

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

Assigned by: Fusco da Costa AR, Fedrizzi T, Lopes ML, Pecorari M, Oliveira da Costa WL, Giacobazzi E, da Costa Bahia JR, De Sanctis V, Batista Lima KV, Bertorelli R, et al. Characterization of 17 strains belonging to the Mycobacterium simiae complex and description of Mycobacterium paraense sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:656-662.

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Species Mycobacterium paraense

Species ***Mycobacterium* *paraense***