Species ***Prevotella* *nanceiensis***

Name: Prevotella nanceiensis Alauzet et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: nan.cei.en’sis. L. fem. adj. nanceiensis, pertaining to Nanceium, the old name of Nancy, the French city where the strains supporting the description of the species were isolated

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: pre-wo-TEL-la nan-ke͡i-EN-sis, feminine

Type strain: AIP 261; AIP 261.03; CCUG 54409; CIP 108993; DSM 19126; JCM 15639; LBN 293

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB547695 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Alauzet C, Mory F, Carlier JP, Marchandin H, Jumas-Bilak E, Lozniewski A. Prevotella nanceiensis sp. nov., isolated from human clinical samples. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2216-2220. 🇫🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:3-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Hoylesella nanceiensis (Alauzet et al. 2007) Hitch et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Emendations:
- 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.
  Notes:
  - 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.

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 Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. 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 33 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. 🇬🇧

Parent taxon: Prevotella Shah and Collins 1990

Assigned by: Alauzet C, Mory F, Carlier JP, Marchandin H, Jumas-Bilak E, Lozniewski A. Prevotella nanceiensis sp. nov., isolated from human clinical samples. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2216-2220. 🇫🇷

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Species Prevotella nanceiensis

Species ***Prevotella* *nanceiensis***