
Name DOI	10.1601/nm.8715
Name	Mycobacterium chimaera Tortoli et al. 2004
Name Status	Validly Published
Current Authority	Tortoli et al. 2004
Preferred Name	Mycobacterium intracellulare chimaera
Taxonomic Rank	species
Nomenclatural Type (designated strain)	Refer to the type exemplar.

Taxonomy	10.1601/tx.8715
Type Strain representative organism	FI-0169^T (=DSM 44623 =CIP 107892 =JCM 14737)


Proper Form	Mycobacterium chimaera Tortoli et al. 2004
Nomenclatural History	The species Mycobacterium chimaera was originally described and validly published by Tortoli et al. 2004. In 2018, Nouioui et al. reduced this species to the rank of subspecies to form Mycobacterium intracellulare chimaera (Tortoli et al. 2004) Nouioui et al. 2018 . Nouioui et al. established this name as an earlier heterotypic synonym of Mycobacterium yongonense Kim et al. 2013 in 2018.

Citation	When referring specifically to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier. Name Abstract for Mycobacterium chimaera Tortoli et al. 2004.April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.8715.
Source File	10.1601/nm.8715.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 25, 2018.

References

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Nouioui I, Carro L, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk H-P, Goodfellow M, Göker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front. Microbio. 2018; 9:2007-2007. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02007 [PubMed].