This volume contains the edition of the International Code of Nomenclature of
Bacteria approved by the Plenary Session of the Fifteenth International
Congress of Microbiology, Osaka, 1990, together with lists of conserved and rejected
bacterial names and of Opinions issued by the Judicial Commission. The
Statutes of the International Committee on Systematic
Bacteriology (ICSB) and the Statutes of the Bacteriology and
Applied Microbiology Division of the International Union of Microbiological
Societies (IUMS), formerly the Bacteriology Section of the
International Association of Microbiological Societies (IAMS), are also included.
Some minor editorial changes have been required where the 1975 edition referred to
actions in the future.
Copyright © 1992, International Union of Microbiological Societies