Species "Candidatus Mycoplasma girerdii"

Name: "Candidatus Mycoplasma girerdii" Fettweis et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: gi.rer’di.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. girerdii, named for P.H. Girerd, an American obstetrician and gynecologist, for his dedication to clinical practice and his contributions to the research of the vaginal microbiota

Gender: neuter

Type strain: VCU_M1

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16S rRNA gene: CP007711 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Fettweis JM, Serrano MG, Huang B, Brooks JP, Glascock AL, Sheth NU, Strauss JF, Jefferson KK, Buck GA. An emerging mycoplasma associated with trichomoniasis, vaginal infection and disease. PLoS One 2014; 9:e110943.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Parent taxon: Mycoplasma Nowak 1929 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Fettweis JM, Serrano MG, Huang B, Brooks JP, Glascock AL, Sheth NU, Strauss JF, Jefferson KK, Buck GA. An emerging mycoplasma associated with trichomoniasis, vaginal infection and disease. PLoS One 2014; 9:e110943.

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Record number: 1020

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