Name: Vagococcus lutrae Lawson et al. 1999

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lu’trae. N.L. gen. fem. n. lutrae, of or pertaining to the common otter, Lutra lutra, the mammal from which the bacterium was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 700839; CCUG 39187; CIP 106118; DSM 15741; M1134/97/1

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: Y17152 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lawson PA, Foster G, Falsen E, Ohlen M, Collins MD. Vagococcus lutrae sp. nov., isolated from the common otter (Lutra lutra). Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1251-1254.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 49, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1327-1328.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 16 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is a putative 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: Vagococcus Collins et al. 1990

Assigned by: Lawson PA, Foster G, Falsen E, Ohlen M, Collins MD. Vagococcus lutrae sp. nov., isolated from the common otter (Lutra lutra). Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1251-1254.

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Record number: 782941