Mycobacterium lepromatosis

Taxonomy ID: 480418 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:480418)

current name

"Mycobacterium lepromatosis"  Han et al. 2008 , effective name  ¹⁾

type strain of Mycobacterium lepromatosis: personal : FJ924

NCBI BLAST name: high G+C Gram-positive bacteria
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Bacteria; Bacillati; Actinomycetota; Actinomycetes; Mycobacteriales; Mycobacteriaceae; Mycobacterium

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).

Comments and References:

Silva FJ et al. (in press_2022) Silva, F.J., Santos-Garcia, D., Zheng, X., Zhang, L., and Han, X.Y. "Construction and analysis of the complete genome sequence of leprosy agent Mycobacterium lepromatosis." Microbiol. Spectr. (in press)

Han XY et al. (2008) Han, X.Y., Seo, Y.H., Sizer, K.C., Schoberle, T., May, G.S., Spencer, J.S., Li, W., and Nair, R.G. "A new Mycobacterium species causing diffuse lepromatous leprosy." Am. J. Clin. Pathol. (2008) 130:856-864.

Singh P et al. (2015b) Singh, P., Benjak, A., Schuenemann, V.J., Herbig, A., Avanzi, C., Busso, P., Nieselt, K., Krause, J., Vera-Cabrera, L., and Cole, S.T. "Insight into the evolution and origin of leprosy bacilli from the genome sequence of Mycobacterium lepromatosis." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2015) 112:4459-4464.