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Bacteroides fragilis

Taxonomy ID: 817 (for references in articles please use NCBI:txid817)

current name

Bacteroides fragilis (Veillon and Zuber 1898) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) in [Skerman VBD et al. (1980)]

type strain of Bacteroides fragilis: ATCC :25285, CCUG :4856, CIP:77.16, DSM :2151, JCM :11019, BCCM/LMG :10263, NCTC :9343

basionym:

"Bacillus fragilis" Veillon and Zuber 1898, effective name in [Veillon A & Zuber A (1898)]

homotypic synonym:

Bacteroides fragilis (Veillon and Zuber 1898) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hahnke et al. 2016, emended name in [Hahnke RL et al. (2016)]

homotypic synonym:

"Fusiformis fragilis" Topley and Wilson 1929, effective name¹⁾

"Ristella fragilis" Prévot 1938, effective name²⁾

"Pseudobacterium fragilis" Krasil'nikov 1949, effective name³⁾

includes:

Bacteroides sp. 2_1_16

Bacteroides sp. 2_1_56FAA

NCBI BLAST name: CFB group bacteria
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)
Other names:

heterotypic synonym

"Bacteroides inaequalis" Eggerth and Gagnon 1933, effective name⁴⁾

heterotypic synonym

"Bacteroides incommunis" Eggerth and Gagnon 1933, effective name⁵⁾

heterotypic synonym

"Bacteroides uncatus" Eggerth and Gagnon 1933, effective name⁶⁾

heterotypic synonym

"Ristella incommunis" (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Prévot 1938, effective name⁷⁾

heterotypic synonym

"Ristella uncata" (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Prévot 1938, effective name⁸⁾

heterotypic synonym

"Sphaerophorus inaequalis" (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Prévot 1938, effective name⁹⁾

heterotypic synonym

"Pseudobacterium inaequalis" (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Krasil'nikov 1949, effective name¹⁰⁾

heterotypic synonym

"Pseudobacterium incommunis" (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Krasil'nikov 1949, effective name¹¹⁾

heterotypic synonym

"Pseudobacterium uncatum" (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Krasil'nikov 1949, effective name¹²⁾

heterotypic synonym

"Sphaerophorus intermedius" Bergan and Hovig 1968, effective name¹³⁾

Lineage( full ): cellular organisms; Bacteria; FCB group; Bacteroidota/Chlorobiota group; Bacteroidota; Bacteroidia; Bacteroidales; Bacteroidaceae; Bacteroides

Entrez records
Database name	Subtree links	Direct links	Links from type
Nucleotide	98,491	66,083	202
Protein	1,698,271	1,274,398	-
Structure	141	43	-
Genome	3	1	-
Popset	41	41	-
Conserved Domains	5	2	-
GEO Datasets	165	63	-
PubMed Central	13,530	13,530	-
Gene	26,957	8,624	-
SRA Experiments	2,703	2,481	-
Protein Clusters	5,173	5,173	-
Identical Protein Groups	382,976	339,158	-
BioProject	318	201	-
BioSample	4,875	4,636	109
Assembly	1,300	1,198	-
PubChem BioAssay	278	278	-
Taxonomy	91	1	-

Notes:

1) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).
2) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).
3) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).
4) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).
5) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).
6) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).
7) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).
8) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).
9) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).
10) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).
11) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).
12) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).
13) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).

Comments and References:

Skerman VBD et al. (1980)

Skerman, V.B.D., McGowan, V., and Sneath, P.H.A. "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names." Intl. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1980) 30(1):225-420.

Veillon A & Zuber A (1898)

Veillon, A., and Zuber, A. "Recherches sur quelques microbes strictement anaérobies et leur rôle en pathologie." Archives de Medecine Experimentale et d'Anatomie Pathologique (1898) 10:517-545. [No PubMed record available.]

Hahnke RL et al. (2016), doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.02003, PubMed: abstract

Hahnke, R.L., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., García-López, M., Mukherjee, S., Huntemann, M., Ivanova, N.N., Woyke, T., Kyrpides, N.C., Klenk, H.-P., and Göker, M. "Genome-based taxonomic classification of Bacteroidetes." Front. Microbiol. (2016) 7:2003.

image:Bacteroides fragilis

Castellani A & Chalmers AJ (1919)

Castellani, A., and Chalmers, A.J. Manual of Tropical Medicine, 3rd ed. (1919). Williams Wood and Co., New York. [No PubMed abstract available.]

Cato EP & Johnson JL (1976)

Cato, E.P., and Johnson, J.L. "Reinstatement of species rank for Bacteroides fragilis, B. ovatus, B. distasonis, B. thetaiotaomicron, and B. vulgatus: Designation of neotype strains for Bacteroides fragilis (Veillon and Zuber) Castellani and Chalmers and Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (Distaso) Castellani and Chalmers." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1976) 26:230-237. [No PubMed record available.]

Eggerth AH & Gagnon BH (1933), other link:http://jb.asm.org/content/25/4/389.long

Eggerth, A.H., and Gagnon, B.H. "The bacteroides of human feces." J. Bacteriol. (1933) 25:389-413. [No abstract available.]

Krasil'nikov NA (1949)

Krasil'nikov, N.A.: Guide to the Bacteria and Actinomycetes [Opredelitelv Bakterii i Actinomicetov], (1949). Akad. Nauk SSSR, Moscow, pp. 1-830. [No PubMed record available.]

List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion No. 26 (2017)

"Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2017) 67(7):2081-2086.

Prévot AR (1938)

Prévot, A.R. "Etudes de systematique bacterienne." Ann. Inst. Pasteur (Paris) (1938) 60:285-307. [No PubMed record available.]

Oles RE et al. (2024), doi:10.1128/msystems.00516-24

Oles, R.E., Carrillo Terrazas, M., Loomis, L.R., Hsu, C.-Y., Tribelhorn, C., Belda-Ferre, P., Ea, A.C., Bryant, M., Young, J.A., Carrow, H.C., Sandborn, W.J., Dulai, P.S., Sivagnanam, M., Pride, D., Knight, R., and Chu, H. "Pangenome comparison of Bacteroides fragilis genomospecies unveils genetic diversity and ecological insights." mSystems (2024) 9(7):e00516-24.

Topley WWC & Wilson GS (1929)

Topley, W.W.C., and Wilson, G.S. The Principles of Bacteriology and Immunity, 1st ed. (1929) Edward Arnold and Co., London, pp. 1-587. [No PubMed record available.]

Veillon A & Zuber A (1898)

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