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Species Prevotella marshii
Name: Prevotella marshii Downes et al. 2005
Etymology: mar’shi.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. marshii, of Marsh, named in honour of British microbiologist Philip Marsh, for his contributions to oral microbiology
Type strain: CCUG 50419; DSM 16973; E9.34; JCM 13450
See detailed strain information at
Conduct genome-based taxonomy at
16S rRNA gene:
AB547691
Analyse
FASTA
Valid publication:
Downes J, Sutcliffe I, Tanner AC, Wade WG. Prevotella marshii sp. nov. and Prevotella baroniae sp. nov., isolated from the human oral cavity. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1551-1555. 
IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2239-2241.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind Hoylesella marshii (Downes et al. 2005) Hitch et al. 2023 homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
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Emendations:
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Hahnke et al. 2016
Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.
Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.
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Hahnke et al. 2016
Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.
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Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. 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 6 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 risk group of the species itself.
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🧍 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 2022; 168:0.
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🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019).
Publication:
Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.
Parent taxon: Prevotella Shah and Collins 1990
Assigned by:
Downes J, Sutcliffe I, Tanner AC, Wade WG. Prevotella marshii sp. nov. and Prevotella baroniae sp. nov., isolated from the human oral cavity. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1551-1555.
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Record number: 779792
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