Name: Yersinia aleksiciae Sprague and Neubauer 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.lek.si’ci.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. aleksiciae, of Aleksic, in honour of Professor Stojanca Aleksic, Hamburg, Germany, to whom we owe much of our knowledge on the epidemiology and microbiology of Yersinia

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … a-lek-SI-ki-a͡e, feminine

Type strain: DSM 14987; LMG 22254; WA 758; Y159

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ717341 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sprague LD, Neubauer H. Yersinia aleksiciae sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:831-835. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1399-1402.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 2

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.07666 (N = 4).
  • 😷 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 = 2. — 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 5 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 species itself.

Parent taxon: Yersinia van Loghem 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Sprague LD, Neubauer H. Yersinia aleksiciae sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:831-835. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 783198