Turicibacter

J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature - Genus Turicibacter

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Number of species cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies cited in this file: 0

Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").

Turicibacter Bosshard et al. 2002, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Turicibacter sanguinis Bosshard et al. 2002.
Etymology: L. n. Turicum, the Latin name of Zürich; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Turicibacter, a rod-shaped organism from Zürich, Switzerland, where the bacterium was first isolated.
Reference: BOSSHARD (P.P.), ZBINDEN (R.) and ALTWEGG (M.): Turicibacter sanguinis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2002, 52, 1263-1266.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Turicibacter sanguinis Bosshard et al. 2002, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain MOL361 = DSM 14220 = NCCB 100008.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AF349724.
Etymology: L. n. sanguis -inis, blood; L. gen. n. sanguinis, of blood, indicating that the bacterium was isolated from a blood culture.
Reference: BOSSHARD (P.P.), ZBINDEN (R.) and ALTWEGG (M.): Turicibacter sanguinis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2002, 52, 1263-1266.
Original article in IJSEM Online