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Bacteroides fragilis

Taxonomy ID: 817 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:817)
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
includes:
Bacteroides sp. 2_1_56FAA
Bacteroides sp. 2_1_16
homotypic synonym:
"Ristella fragilis"  Prévot 1938 , effective name  1)
"Fusiformis fragilis"  Topley and Wilson 1929 , effective name  2)
"Pseudobacterium fragilis"  Krasil'nikov 1949 , effective name  3)
NCBI BLAST name: CFB group bacteria
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)
Other names:
heterotypic synonym "Sphaerophorus intermedius"  Bergan and Hovig 1968 , effective name  4)
heterotypic synonym "Sphaerophorus inaequalis"  (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Prévot 1938 , effective name  5)
heterotypic synonym "Ristella uncata"  (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Prévot 1938 , effective name  6)
heterotypic synonym "Ristella incommunis"  (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Prévot 1938 , effective name  7)
heterotypic synonym "Pseudobacterium uncatum"  (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Krasil'nikov 1949 , effective name  8)
heterotypic synonym "Pseudobacterium incommunis"  (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Krasil'nikov 1949 , effective name  9)
heterotypic synonym "Pseudobacterium inaequalis"  (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Krasil'nikov 1949 , effective name  10)
heterotypic synonym "Bacteroides uncatus"  Eggerth and Gagnon 1933 , effective name  11)
heterotypic synonym "Bacteroides incommunis"  Eggerth and Gagnon 1933 , effective name  12)
heterotypic synonym "Bacteroides inaequalis"  Eggerth and Gagnon 1933 , effective name  13)
Lineage(full)
cellular organisms; Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; FCB group; Bacteroidota/Chlorobiota group; Bacteroidota; Bacteroidia; Bacteroidales; Bacteroidaceae; Bacteroides

Notes:

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.
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.
Veillon A & Zuber A (1898)
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(2):230-237. [No PubMed record available.]
Eggerth AH & Gagnon BH (1933)
Eggerth, A.H., and Gagnon, B.H. "The bacteroides of human feces." J. Bacteriol. (1933) 25(4):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 (1938c)
Prévot, A.R. "Etudes de systematique bacterienne." Ann. Inst. Pasteur (Paris) (1938) 60:285-307. [No PubMed record available.]
Oles RE et al. (2024)
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)
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.]

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