Species Streptococcus tigurinus

Name: Streptococcus tigurinus Zbinden et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ti.gu.ri’nus. N.L. masc. adj. tigurinus, of or pertaining to Tigurum, a district in Helvetia, the modern Zurich, the region where the bacterial species was first recognized

Gender: masculine

Type strain: AZ_3a; CCOS 600; DSM 24864; NCTC 13783

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JN004270 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zbinden A, Mueller NJ, Tarr PE, Sproer C, Keller PM, Bloemberg GV. Streptococcus tigurinus sp. nov., isolated from blood of patients with endocarditis, meningitis and spondylodiscitis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2941-2945.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:799-800.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Streptococcus oralis subsp. tigurinus (Zbinden et al. 2012) Jensen et al. 2016

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Streptococcus oralis subsp. tigurinus (Zbinden et al. 2012) Jensen et al. 2016	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, distinct rank

Notes:
- ❗ Streptococcus tigurinus is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Streptococcus.
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 26 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
- 🧍 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: Streptococcus Rosenbach 1884 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Zbinden A, Mueller NJ, Tarr PE, Sproer C, Keller PM, Bloemberg GV. Streptococcus tigurinus sp. nov., isolated from blood of patients with endocarditis, meningitis and spondylodiscitis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2941-2945.

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Record number: 790334

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