Name: Mycobacterium fortuitum subsp. fortuitum (da Costa Cruz 1938) Tsukamura et al. 1986

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov. (rule 40d)

Basonym: Mycobacterium fortuitum da Costa Cruz 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)

Etymology: for.tu.i’tum. L. neut. adj. fortuitum, casual, accidental, fortuitous

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … for-tu-I-tum, neuter

Type strain: 6841; ATCC 6841; CCUG 20994; CIP 104534; DSM 46621; IFO 13159; JCM 6387; NBRC 13159; NCTC 10394

Effective publication: Tsukamura M, Yano I, Imaeda T. Mycobacterium fortuitum subspecies acetamidolyticum, a new subspecies of Mycobacterium fortuitum. Microbiol Immunol 1986; 30:97-110.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 21. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1986; 36:489.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Mycolicibacterium fortuitum subsp. fortuitum (da Costa Cruz 1938) Gupta et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 📠 This subspecies was automatically created by the valid publication of Mycobacterium fortuitum subsp. acetamidolyticum Tsukamura et al. 1986 according to rule 40d. Publication: Tsukamura M, Yano I, Imaeda T. Mycobacterium fortuitum subspecies acetamidolyticum, a new subspecies of Mycobacterium fortuitum. Microbiol Immunol 1986; 30:97-110.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 2 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht". — 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.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this subspecies. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the species itself.
  • 🧍 The original authorship, da Costa Cruz 1938, was corrected according to the new Rule 40d. Publication: Garrity GM, Labeda DP, Oren A. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. XIIth International (IUMS) Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology. Minutes of the meetings, 3, 4 and 6 August 2008, Istanbul, Turkey. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2011; 61:2775-2780. 🇺🇸

Parent taxon: Mycobacterium fortuitum da Costa Cruz 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Tsukamura M, Yano I, Imaeda T. Mycobacterium fortuitum subspecies acetamidolyticum, a new subspecies of Mycobacterium fortuitum. Microbiol Immunol 1986; 30:97-110.

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Record number: 778446