Species Mycobacterium vinylchloridicum

Name: Mycobacterium vinylchloridicum (Cortés-Albayay et al. 2023) Göker et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Mycolicibacterium vinylchloridicum Cortés-Albayay et al. 2023

Etymology: vi.nyl.chlo.ri’di.cum. N.L. neut. adj. vinylchloridicum, related to vinyl chloride

Pronunciation, gender: wi-nyl-khlo-RI-di-kum, neuter

Type strain: CECT 8761; DSM 6695; L1

16S rRNA gene: MT478173 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Göker M, Christensen H, Fingerle V, Kostovski M, Margos G, Moore ERB, Oren A, Patrick S, Reischl U, Vázquez-Boland JA. List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance: report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Mitigating Changes in Prokaryotic Nomenclature. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2025; 75:0.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

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

Assigned by: Göker M, Christensen H, Fingerle V, Kostovski M, Margos G, Moore ERB, Oren A, Patrick S, Reischl U, Vázquez-Boland JA. List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance: report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Mitigating Changes in Prokaryotic Nomenclature. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2025; 75:0.

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Record number: 68140
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