Name: Oerskovia turbata (Erikson 1954) Prauser et al. 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Nocardia turbata" Erikson 1954

Etymology: tur.ba’ta. L. fem. part. adj. turbata, agitated

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … tur-BA-ta, feminine

Type strain: 891; ATCC 25835; CFBP 4266; CIP 100331; DSM 20577; IFO 15015; JCM 3160; LMG 4072; NBRC 15015; NCIB 10587; NCIMB 10587; NCTC 11973; NRRL B-8019; Ørskov strain 27; VKM Ac-1024

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X79454 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Prauser H, Lechevalier MP, Lechevalier H. Description of Oerskovia gen. n. to harbor Orskov's motile nocardia. Appl Microbiol 1970; 19:534.

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: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Nocardia turbata" Erikson 1954	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
    Cellulomonas turbata (Erikson 1954) Stackebrandt et al. 1983	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Stackebrandt et al. 2002 Stackebrandt E, Breymann S, Steiner U, Prauser H, Weiss N, Schumann P. Re-evaluation of the status of the genus Oerskovia, reclassification of Promicromonospora enterophila (Jager et al. 1983) as Oerskovia enterophila comb. nov. and description of Oerskovia jenensis sp. nov. and Oerskovia paurometabola sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1105-1111. 🇩🇪 Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1439-1440.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 The 16S rDNA analysis, DNA-DNA reassociation, riboprinting, peptidoglycan analysis and determination of phenotypic properties of various strain of Cellulomonas turbata (Erikson 1954) Stackebrandt et al. 1983 reveal that they form a cluster that can be distinguished unambiguously from other Cellulomonas species by morphology, amino acid composition of the cell wall and 16 rDNA signatures. As a result of this polyphasic study, it appears taxonomically reasonable to re-establish the genus Oerskovia for Cellulomonas turbata.
  • 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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Oerskovia Prauser et al. 1970 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Prauser H, Lechevalier MP, Lechevalier H. Description of Oerskovia gen. n. to harbor Orskov's motile nocardia. Appl Microbiol 1970; 19:534.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, 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, note = "PIIC". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — 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 26 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. 🇬🇧

Parent taxon: Oerskovia Prauser et al. 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Prauser H, Lechevalier MP, Lechevalier H. Description of Oerskovia gen. n. to harbor Orskov's motile nocardia. Appl Microbiol 1970; 19:534.

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