Species ***Mycobacterium* *marseillense***

Name: Mycobacterium marseillense Ben Salah et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mar.seil.len’se. N.L. neut. adj. marseillense, pertaining to Marseille, where the first strains were isolated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: 5356591; CCUG 56325; CIP 109828; CSUR P30; DSM 45437

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU266632 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ben Salah I, Cayrou C, Raoult D, Drancourt M. Mycobacterium marseillense sp. nov., Mycobacterium timonense sp. nov. and Mycobacterium bouchedurhonense sp. nov., members of the Mycobacterium avium complex. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2803-2808.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:269-270.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

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 Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 18 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: Mycobacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Ben Salah I, Cayrou C, Raoult D, Drancourt M. Mycobacterium marseillense sp. nov., Mycobacterium timonense sp. nov. and Mycobacterium bouchedurhonense sp. nov., members of the Mycobacterium avium complex. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2803-2808.

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Species Mycobacterium marseillense

Species ***Mycobacterium* *marseillense***