Name: Yersinia nurmii Murros-Kontiainen et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: nur’mi.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. nurmii, of Nurmi, in honour of the Professor Esko Nurmi, a distinguished researcher in the field of food hygiene, who, with his colleagues, introduced, among other things, the concept of competitive exclusion

Pronunciation, gender: NUR-mi-i, feminine

Type strain: APN3a-c; DSM 22296; LMG 25213

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ717338 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Murros-Kontiainen A, Fredriksson-Ahomaa M, Korkeala H, Johansson P, Rahkila R, Bjorkroth J. Yersinia nurmii sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2368-2372. 🇫🇮

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:5-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.06606 (N = 2).
  • 😷 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 3 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.

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

Assigned by: Murros-Kontiainen A, Fredriksson-Ahomaa M, Korkeala H, Johansson P, Rahkila R, Bjorkroth J. Yersinia nurmii sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2368-2372. 🇫🇮

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Record number: 789521