Species ***Mycobacterium* *triviale***

Name: Mycobacterium triviale Kubica et al. 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: tri.vi.a’le. L. neut. adj. triviale, common, commonplace, vulgar, ordinary, of little importance

Pronunciation, gender: … tri-wi-A-le, neuter

Type strain: ATCC 23292; CCUG 42431; DSM 44153

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X88924 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Kubica GP, Silcox VA, Kilburn JO, Smithwick RW, Beam RE, Jones Jr. WD, Stottmeier KD. Differential identification of mycobacteria. VI. Mycobacterium triviale sp. nov. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1970; 20:161-174.

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: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Mycolicibacillus trivialis (Kubica et al. 1970) 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 = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — 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 = 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 18 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 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. 🇬🇧
- 🧍 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: Kubica GP, Silcox VA, Kilburn JO, Smithwick RW, Beam RE, Jones Jr. WD, Stottmeier KD. Differential identification of mycobacteria. VI. Mycobacterium triviale sp. nov. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1970; 20:161-174.

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Species Mycobacterium triviale

Species ***Mycobacterium* *triviale***