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Species Mycobacterium thermoresistibile

Name: Mycobacterium thermoresistibile Tsukamura 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category, proposed as: species, sp. nov.

Etymology: ther.mo.re.sis.ti’bi.le. Gr. fem. adj. thermê, heat; L. v. resisto, to stand back, remain standing, endure; L. masc./fem. adj. suff. -ibilis, suffix denoting a capacity or ability, able to; N.L. neut. adj. thermoresistibile, able to resist to high temperature

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: my-ko-bak-TE-ri-um ther-mo-re-sis-TI-bi-le, neuter

Type strain: ATCC 19527; CCUG 28008; CCUG 41353; CIP 105390; DSM 44167; JCM 6362; NCTC 10409

16S rRNA gene: X55602 Analysetree FASTA download

Effective publication: Tsukamura M. Adansonian classification of mycobacteria. J Gen Microbiol 1966; 45:253-273.

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

  • 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 Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 2 - 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 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 1, 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 42 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
    • 🙆 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. 🇬🇧

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

Assigned by: Tsukamura M. Adansonian classification of mycobacteria. J Gen Microbiol 1966; 45:253-273.

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