Name: Kytococcus schroeteri Becker et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: schroe’ter.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. schroeteri, of Schroeter, honouring Joseph Schroeter, a German microbiologist

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCM 4918; DSM 13884; JCM 12136; Muenster 2000

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16S rRNA gene: AJ297722 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Becker K, Schumann P, Wullenweber J, Schulte M, Weil HP, Stackebrandt E, Peters G, von Eiff C. Kytococcus schroeteri sp. nov., a novel Gram-positive actinobacterium isolated from a human clinical source. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1609-1614.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:3-5.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 31 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology 2022; 168:0.

Parent taxon: Kytococcus Stackebrandt et al. 1995

Assigned by: Becker K, Schumann P, Wullenweber J, Schulte M, Weil HP, Stackebrandt E, Peters G, von Eiff C. Kytococcus schroeteri sp. nov., a novel Gram-positive actinobacterium isolated from a human clinical source. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1609-1614.

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Record number: 777226