Escherichia hermannii

Escherichia hermannii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Enterobacterales
Family: Enterobacteriaceae
Genus: Escherichia
Species:
E. hermannii
Binomial name
Escherichia hermannii
Brenner et al. 1983

Escherichia hermannii is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped species of bacterium. Strains of this species were originally isolated from human wounds, sputum, and stool. The species is named for American microbiologists George J. Hermann and Lloyd G. Herman.[1]

A 2016 publication proposed reclassifying E. hermannii as a species of a new genus within the Enterobacteriaceae, Atlantibacter, a change which would rename the species to Atlantibacter hermannii.[2] The LPSN considers the new name a synonym, not validly published (i.e. made outside of IJSB and IJSEM) under the ICNP.[3] GTDB and NCBI agree with the 2016 reassignment.[4][5]

  1. ^ Brenner, DJ; Davis, BR; Steigerwalt, AG; Riddle, CF; McWhorter, AC; Allen, SD; Farmer JJ, 3rd; Saitoh, Y; Fanning, GR (April 1982). "Atypical biogroups of Escherichia coli found in clinical specimens and description of Escherichia hermannii sp. nov". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 15 (4): 703–13. doi:10.1128/JCM.15.4.703-713.1982. PMC 272169. PMID 7040466.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Hata, H; Natori, T; Mizuno, T; Kanazawa, I; Eldesouky, I; Hayashi, M; Miyata, M; Fukunaga, H; Ohji, S; Hosoyama, A; Aono, E; Yamazoe, A; Tsuchikane, K; Fujita, N; Ezaki, T (May 2016). "Phylogenetics of family Enterobacteriaceae and proposal to reclassify Escherichia hermannii and Salmonella subterranea as Atlantibacter hermannii and Atlantibacter subterranea gen. nov., comb. nov". Microbiology and Immunology. 60 (5): 303–11. doi:10.1111/1348-0421.12374. PMID 26970508. S2CID 32594451.
  3. ^ "Species: Atlantibacter hermannii". lpsn.dsmz.de.
  4. ^ "GTDB - Tree at g__Atlantibacter". gtdb.ecogenomic.org.
  5. ^ "Taxonomy browser (Atlantibacter)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.