Goker, Markus and Christensen, Henrik and Fingerle, Volker and Kostovski, Marko and Margos, Gabriele and Moore, Edward R. B. and Oren, Aharon and Patrick, Sheila and Reischl, Udo and Vazquez-Boland, Jose A. (2025) List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance: report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Mitigating Changes in Prokaryotic Nomenclature. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, 75 (10): 006943. ISSN 1466-5026, 1466-5034
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The Ad Hoc Committee on Mitigating Changes in Prokaryotic Nomenclature was recently established under the auspices of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes to address the impact of name changes of prokaryotic taxa in databases, scientific publications and other sources, particularly agencies responsible for establishing protocols and standards for infectious disease control. Here, we report on the activities of the committee and the actions taken to date. A first key task of the Committee was to emphasize to stakeholders that the vast majority of name changes are not mandatory under the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP), and to provide guidance. The second key task was to compile a List of Recommended Names (LoRN) for bacteria of human or veterinary medical importance. This list has been incorporated into the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and is easily and freely available from LPSN. The principles for compiling and updating the list are described. Use of this list, rather than automatically treating the most recently proposed name of a taxon that has obtained standing under the ICNP as the name to be applied to the taxon, will greatly reduce the burden on practitioners who need to use prokaryotic names, e.g. in human and veterinary medical routines, and the risk associated with new, unfamiliar names. Other databases are encouraged to use LoRN.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | GENOME-BASED CLASSIFICATION; DNA-DNA HYBRIDIZATION; SALMONELLA-SUBTERRANEA; GEN. NOV.; 2 GENERA; TAXONOMY; PROPOSAL; LPSN; archaea; bacteria; databases; microbiology; standards; taxonomy |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Apr 2026 08:31 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2026 08:31 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/67758 |
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