Name: "Candidatus Orientia mediorientalis" corrig. Abarca et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: me.di.o.ri.en.ta’lis. L. masc. adj. medius, middle; L. masc./fem. adj. orientalis, eastern; N.L. fem. adj. mediorientalis, from the Middle East

Gender: feminine

Type strain: Dubai

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HM852447 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Abarca K, Martinez-Valdebenito C, Angulo J, Jiang J, Farris CM, Richards AL, Acosta-Jamett G, Weitzel T. Molecular Description of a Novel Orientia Species Causing Scrub Typhus in Chile. Emerg Infect Dis 2020; 26:2148-2156.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 3. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5186.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Orientia chuto" Abarca et al. 2020	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling
    "Orientia chuto" Izzard et al. 2010	homotypic synonym, not validly published

Parent taxon: Orientia Tamura et al. 1995

Assigned by: Abarca K, Martinez-Valdebenito C, Angulo J, Jiang J, Farris CM, Richards AL, Acosta-Jamett G, Weitzel T. Molecular Description of a Novel Orientia Species Causing Scrub Typhus in Chile. Emerg Infect Dis 2020; 26:2148-2156.

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Record number: 28573