Name: Patulibacter medicamentivorans Almeida et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.di.ca.men.ti.vo’rans. L. neut. n. medicamentum, a drug, remedy, medicine, medicament; L. pres. part. vorans, devouring; N.L. part. adj. medicamentivorans, medicament-devouring

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CECT 8141; DSM 25962; I11

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AGUD01000068 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Almeida B, Vaz-Moreira I, Schumann P, Nunes OC, Carvalho G, Barreto Crespo MT. Patulibacter medicamentivorans sp. nov., isolated from activated sludge of a wastewater treatment plant. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2588-2593.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3549-3550.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Patulibacter Takahashi et al. 2006

Assigned by: Almeida B, Vaz-Moreira I, Schumann P, Nunes OC, Carvalho G, Barreto Crespo MT. Patulibacter medicamentivorans sp. nov., isolated from activated sludge of a wastewater treatment plant. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2588-2593.

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Record number: 790937