Correct names of taxa within the genus Brucella with details of type and reference strains - July 2010

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Prepared by Bjorn Osterman. Updated 2 July 2010.

Genus Brucella

   Brucella melitensis (16M)

Type strain: NCTC 10094, ATCC 23456
WHO Tech Rep Ser (1953); Payne (1960); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

   Brucella melitensis biovar 1 (16M)

Reference strain: NCTC 10094, ATCC 23456
WHO Tech Rep Ser (1953); Payne (1960); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

   Brucella melitensis biovar 2 (63/9)

Reference strain: NCTC 10508, ATCC 23457
Brinley-Morgan (1969); Subcommittee (1963); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

   Brucella melitensis biovar 3 (Ether)

Reference strain: NCTC 10509, ATCC 23458
Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

 

   Brucella abortus (544)

Type strain: NCTC 10093, ATCC 23448
WHO Tech Rep Ser (1953, 1959); Payne (1960); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

   Brucella abortus biovar 1 (544)

Reference strain: NCTC 10093, ATCC 23448
WHO Tech Rep Ser (1953, 1959); Payne (1960); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

   Brucella abortus biovar 2 (86/8/59)

Reference strain: NCTC 10501, ATCC 23449
Brinley-Morgan (1967); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

   Brucella abortus biovar 3 (Tulya)

Reference strain: NCTC 10502, ATCC 23450
Brinley-Morgan (1967); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

   Brucella abortus biovar 4 (292)

Reference strain: NCTC 10503, ATCC 23451
Brinley-Morgan (1968); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

   Brucella abortus biovar 5 (B3196)

Reference strain: NCTC 10504, ATCC 23452
Brinley-Morgan (1968); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

   Brucella abortus biovar 6 (870)

Reference strain: NCTC 10505, ATCC 23453
Brinley-Morgan (1967); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

   [Brucella abortus biovar 7 (63/75)]

Reference strain: NCTC 10506, ATCC 23454
Brinley-Morgan (1967); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)
Work is going on to clarify the situation concerning B. abortus biovar 7.

   [Brucella abortus biovar 8]

Deleted by Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Brucella (1978)

   Brucella abortus biovar 9 (C68)

Reference strain: NCTC 10507, ATCC 23455
Brinley-Morgan (1967); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

 

   Brucella suis (1330)

Type strain: NCTC 10316, ATCC 23444
WHO Tech Rep Ser (1953); Brinley-Morgan (1962); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

   Brucella suis biovar 1 (1330)

Reference strain: NCTC 10316, ATCC 23444
WHO Tech Rep Ser (1953); Brinley-Morgan (1962); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

   Brucella suis biovar 2 (Thomsen)

Reference strain: NCTC 10510, ATCC 23445
Brinley-Morgan (1967); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

   Brucella suis biovar 3 (686)

Reference strain: NCTC 10511, ATCC 23446
Brinley-Morgan (1967); Meyer & Brinley-Morgan (1973)

   Brucella suis biovar 4 (40)

Reference strain: NCTC 11364, ATCC 23447
Jones (1967); Corbel (1980)

   Brucella suis biovar 5 (513)

Reference strain: NCTC 11996; ATCC non-deposit
Vershilova (1983); Corbel (1984, 1986); Dranovskaya (1995)

 

   Brucella ovis (63/290)

Type strain: NCTC 10512, ATCC 25840
Buddle (1956, 1959); Brinley-Morgan (1967)

 

   Brucella neotomae (5K33)

Type strain: NCTC 10084, ATCC 23459
Stoenner & Lackman (1957); Stoenner (1960)

 

   Brucella canis (RM6/66)

Type strain: NCTC 10854, ATCC 23365
Carmichael & Bruner (1968); Diaz (1968); Jones (1968)

 

   Brucella ceti (B1/94)

Type strain: NCTC 12891, BCCN 94-74
Cloeckaert et al. (2001); Foster et al. (2007)

 

   Brucella pinnipedialis (B2/94)

Type strain: NCTC 12890, BCCN 94-73
Cloeckaert et al. (2001); Foster et al. (2007)
 

   Brucella microti (CCM 4915)

Type strain: BCCN 07-01, CAPM 6434
Hubalek et al. (2007); Scholz et al. (2008)
 

   Brucella inopinata (BO1)

Type strain: BCCN 09-01, CAPM 6436
De et al. (2008); Scholz et al. (2010)
 

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