Name: Myroides injenensis Paek et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: in.je.nen’sis. N.L. masc. adj. injenensis, of or belonging to Inje, Republic of Korea, where the organism was first isolated [probably better: injensis]

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … in-je-NEN-sis, masculine

Type strain: JCM 17451; KCTC 23367; M09-0166

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HQ671078 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Paek J, Shin JH, Shin Y, Park IS, Jin TE, Kook JK, Wie SH, Cho HG, Park SJ, Chang YH. Myroides injenensis sp. nov., a new member isolated from human urine. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 107:201-207. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 163. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1105-1111.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 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 3 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 García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 🇩🇪

Parent taxon: Myroides Vancanneyt et al. 1996

Assigned by: Paek J, Shin JH, Shin Y, Park IS, Jin TE, Kook JK, Wie SH, Cho HG, Park SJ, Chang YH. Myroides injenensis sp. nov., a new member isolated from human urine. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 107:201-207. 🇰🇷

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Record number: 792743