Name: Enterobacter hormaechei subsp. oharae Hoffmann et al. 2016

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov.

Etymology: o.ha’rae. N.L. gen. fem. n. oharae, in honor of Caroline M. O’Hara, an American microbiologist who is affiliated at this time with the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Ga., and who originally described the species of various Enterobacteriaceae

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CIP 108490; DSM 16687; EN-314

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ853889 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Hoffmann H, Stindl S, Ludwig W, Stumpf A, Mehlen A, Monget D, Pierard D, Ziesing S, Heesemann J, Roggenkamp A, et al. Enterobacter hormaechei subsp. oharae subsp. nov., E. hormaechei subsp. hormaechei comb. nov., and E. hormaechei subsp. steigerwaltii subsp. nov., three new subspecies of clinical importance. J Clin Microbiol 2005; 43:3297-3303.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 172. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4299-4305.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht".
  • 🧍 In the effective publication, the DSMZ collection number of the type strain was mistakenly given as DSMZ 16687 instead of DSM 16687. — Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date, 2018-12-11.

Parent taxon: Enterobacter hormaechei O'Hara et al. 1990

Assigned by: Hoffmann H, Stindl S, Ludwig W, Stumpf A, Mehlen A, Monget D, Pierard D, Ziesing S, Heesemann J, Roggenkamp A, et al. Enterobacter hormaechei subsp. oharae subsp. nov., E. hormaechei subsp. hormaechei comb. nov., and E. hormaechei subsp. steigerwaltii subsp. nov., three new subspecies of clinical importance. J Clin Microbiol 2005; 43:3297-3303.

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