Name: Yersinia pestis (Lehmann and Neumann 1896) van Loghem 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Etymology: L. n. pestis -is, an infectious or contagious disease, plague; L. gen. n. pestis, of plague

Gender: feminine

Type strains: ATCC 19428; CIP 80.26; NCTC 5923

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF366383 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Van Loghem JJ. The classification of plague-bacillus. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Journal of Microbiology and Serology 1944; 10:15-16.

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, conserved name

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 3

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Yersinia pseudotuberculosis subsp. pestis (Lehmann and Neumann 1896) Bercovier et al. 1981	homotypic synonym, validly published, rejected name, distinct rank

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the genus Yersinia van Loghem 1944 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Van Loghem JJ. The classification of plague-bacillus. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Journal of Microbiology and Serology 1944; 10:15-16.
  • The conference of experts of the Anti-Plague Establishments of the Soviet Union (Saratov, 1985) recommended classifying all of the variants of the plague pathogen that were isolated from the territory of the Former Soviet Union and Mongolia into the subspecies "Yersinia pestis subsp. pestis", "Yersinia pestis subsp. altaica", "Yersinia pestis subsp. caucasica", "Yersinia pestis subsp. hissarica", "Yersinia pestis subsp. ulegeica. In 1998, Sludskii proposed one more subspecies, "Yersinia pestis subsp. talassica". Publication: Anisimov AP, Lindler LE, Pier GB. Intraspecific diversity of Yersinia pestis. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 2004; 17:434-464.

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

Assigned by: Van Loghem JJ. The classification of plague-bacillus. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Journal of Microbiology and Serology 1944; 10:15-16.

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