Name: Shigella flexneri Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: flex’ner.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. flexneri, of Flexner, named after Simon Flexner, an American bacteriologist

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 29903; CIP 82.48; DSM 4782

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X96963 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of Tropical Medicine, 3rd ed. Williams Wood and Co., New York, 1919.

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, conserved name

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Notes:
  • 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.
  • Conserved epithet (Judicial Opinion 11). Only conservation of epithets, and against each other. Publication: Judicial Commission. Judicial Opinion No. 14. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1954; 4:156-158.
  • The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht".

Parent taxon: Shigella Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of Tropical Medicine, 3rd ed. Williams Wood and Co., New York, 1919.

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Record number: 780915