Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1465

Name

Afipia felis Brenner et al. 1992 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Afipia Brenner et al. 1992 emend. La Scola et al. 2002

Type Strain

representative organism

B-91-007352^T (=AFIP strain BV =ATCC 53690)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Nitrobacteraceae Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Afipia Brenner et al. 1992 emend. La Scola et al. 2002
species Afipia felis Brenner et al. 1992 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.19757	ATCC BAA-1029 (=DSM 16694 =25E-1)

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Afipia felis Brenner et al. 1992 emend. Hördt et al. 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1465.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1465.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 25, 2020.

References

Brenner DJ, Hollis DG, Moss CW, English CK, Hall GS, Vincent J, Radosevic J, Birkness KA, Bibb WF, Quinn FD. Proposal of Afipia gen. nov., with Afipia felis sp. nov. (formerly the cat scratch disease bacillus), Afipia clevelandensis sp. nov. (formerly the Cleveland Clinic Foundation strain), Afipia broomeae sp. nov., and three unnamed genospecies. J Clin Microbiol 1991; 29:2450-2460. [PubMed].