Name: Providencia stuartii (Buttiaux et al. 1954) Ewing 1962 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Proteus stuartii" Buttiaux et al. 1954

Etymology: stu.art’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. stuartii, of Stuart, named after C.A. Stuart, American bacteriologist who did much of the early work on Providencia

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 29914; CCUG 14805; CIP 104687; DSM 4539; LMG 3260; NCTC 11800

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF008581 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Ewing WH. The tribe Proteae: its nomenclature and taxonomy. International Bulletin of Bacteriological Nomenclature and Taxonomy 1962; 12:93-102.

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

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Proteus stuartii" Buttiaux et al. 1954	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "human and animal pathogen - biological class of risk animal: 2". — The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 506 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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.

Parent taxon: Providencia Ewing 1962 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Ewing WH. The tribe Proteae: its nomenclature and taxonomy. International Bulletin of Bacteriological Nomenclature and Taxonomy 1962; 12:93-102.

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Record number: 779892