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Species Bifidobacterium thermophilum

Classification: 

Bacteria Bacillati Actinomycetota Actinomycetes Bifidobacteriales Bifidobacteriaceae Bifidobacterium Bifidobacterium thermophilum

Name: Bifidobacterium thermophilum corrig. Mitsuoka 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category, proposed as: species, sp. nov.

Etymology: ther.mo’phi.lum. Gr. fem. adj. thermê, heat; N.L. adj. philus -a -um, friend, loving; from Gr. adj. philos -ê -on, loving; N.L. neut. adj. thermophilum, heat-loving

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: bi-fi-do-bak-TE-ri-um ther-MO-phi-lum, neuter

Type strain: ATCC 25525; BCRC 14669; CCRC 14669; CCUG 34983; CGMCC 1.2235; CIP 105420; DSM 20210; HAMBI 111; JCM 1207; LMG 11573

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16S rRNA gene: GU361834 Analysetree FASTA download

Effective publication: Mitsuoka T. Vergleichende Untersuchungen über die Bifidobakterien aus dem Verdauungstrakt von Menschen und Tieren. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene. Abteilung I 1969; 210:52-64.

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 under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 1

  • Emendations:
    • Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.
  • Notes:
    • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. 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 70 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
    • 🙆 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.
    • 🧍 Nom. corrig.: IJSB 34:508 but misspelling is retained in AL amended edition 1989. Publication: Hill LR, Skerman VBD, Sneath PHA. Corrigenda to the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names edited for the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1984; 34:508-511. 🇬🇧
    • 🧍 The original spelling of the specific epithet, thermophilium (sic), has been corrected by Hill et al. 1984 [1]. Publication: Hill LR, Skerman VBD, Sneath PHA. Corrigenda to the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names edited for the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1984; 34:508-511. 🇬🇧
    • 🧍 This corrigendum has been omitted from the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names (Amended Edition) [2]. Publication: Euzéby JP. Corrigenda to the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names and to the amended edition of the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:1271-1272.

Parent taxon: Bifidobacterium Orla-Jensen 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Mitsuoka T. Vergleichende Untersuchungen über die Bifidobakterien aus dem Verdauungstrakt von Menschen und Tieren. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene. Abteilung I 1969; 210:52-64.

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Record number: 774064

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