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Species Nocardia otitidiscaviarum

Classification: 

Bacteria Bacillati Actinomycetota Actinomycetes Mycobacteriales Nocardiaceae Nocardia Nocardia otitidiscaviarum

Name: Nocardia otitidiscaviarum corrig. Snijders 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category, proposed as: species, sp. nov.

Etymology: o.ti.ti.dis.ca.vi.a’rum. N.L. fem. n. otitis (gen. otitidis), inflammation of the ear; N.L. fem. n. Cavia, generic name for cavy, another name for guinea pig; N.L. gen. fem. pl. n. otitidiscaviarum, of ear disease of guinea pigs

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: no-KAR-di-a o-ti-ti-dis-ka-wi-A-rum, feminine

Type strain: ATCC 14629; CCUG 10075; CIP 104514; DSM 43242; IFO 14405; JCM 3377; JCM 3393; NBRC 14405; NCIMB 12084; NCTC 1934; VKM Ac-869

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Effective publication: Snijders EP. Cavia-scheefkopperij, een nocardiose. Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie 1924; 64:85-87.

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 Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "human pathogen". — The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 2 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht". — The risk group for France has been imported on 2024-08-30. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — The risk group for Sweden has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — The risk group for Taiwan has been imported on 2024-11-03. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "P650 = v". — The risk group for United Kingdom has been imported on 2024-01-31. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — The risk group for United States has been imported on 2024-02-09. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — 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 144 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.
    • 🧍 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. 🇬🇧
    • 🧍 See also Lessel (1962). Publication: Lessel EF. Status of the name Nocardia otitidis-caviarum Snijders 1924. International Bulletin of Bacteriological Nomenclature and Taxonomy 1962; 12:191-192.
    • 🧍 See also: Publication: Hill LR, Skerman VBD, Sneath PHA. Corrigenda to the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names edited for the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1984; 34:508-511. 🇬🇧
    • 🧍 The original spelling, Nocardia otitidis-caviarum (sic), has been corrected by Farmer 1983 [1] and by Hill et al. 1984 [2]. Publication: Farmer Iii JJ. Correction of four specific epithets that are hyphenated in the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1983; 33:425.

Parent taxon: Nocardia Trevisan 1889 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Snijders EP. Cavia-scheefkopperij, een nocardiose. Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie 1924; 64:85-87.

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Record number: 778757

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