Species ***Streptomyces* *chattanoogensis***

Name: Streptomyces chattanoogensis Burns and Holtman 1959 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: chat.ta.noog.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. chattanoogensis, of or belonging to Chattanooga, Tennessee, the source of the soil from which the organism was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 13358; ATCC 19739; BCRC 13655; CBS 477.68; CCRC 13655; CECT 3321; CGMCC 4.1415; DSM 40002; IFO 12754; JCM 4299; JCM 4571; KCTC 1087; LMG 19339; NBRC 12754; NCIB 9809; NCIMB 9809; NRRL B-2255; NRRL ISP-5002; RIA 1019; VKM Ac-1775

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16S rRNA gene: JN566019 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Burns J, Holtman DF. Tennecetin: a new antifungal antibiotic: general characteristics. Antibiot Chemother (Northfield) 1959; 9:398-405.

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 (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — 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 31 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 genus.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
"Streptomyces chattanoogensis subsp. taitungensis" Lin et al. 1994	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Streptomyces Waksman and Henrici 1943 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Burns J, Holtman DF. Tennecetin: a new antifungal antibiotic: general characteristics. Antibiot Chemother (Northfield) 1959; 9:398-405.

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Record number: 781541

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Species Streptomyces chattanoogensis

Species ***Streptomyces* *chattanoogensis***