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Species Nocardia carnea

Name: Nocardia carnea (Rossi Doria 1891) Castellani and Chalmers 1913 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category, proposed as: species, comb. nov.

Basonym: "Streptothrix carnea" Rossi Doria 1891

Etymology: car’ne.a. L. fem. adj. carnea, of flesh

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: no-KAR-di-a KAR-ne-a, feminine

Type strain: ATCC 6847; CCUG 48177; CIP 104509; DSM 43397; IFO 14403; JCM 3375; NBRC 14403; NRRL B-1336; NRRL WC-3809; VKM Ac-814

16S rRNA gene: AF430035 Analysetree FASTA download

Effective publication: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of Tropical Medicine, 2nd ed. Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, London, 1913.

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 = "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. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. 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 21 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.

Parent taxon: Nocardia Trevisan 1889 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of Tropical Medicine, 2nd ed. Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, London, 1913.

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Record number: 778700