INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON SYSTEMATIC BACTERIOLOGY:

N. A. Logan, M. Heyndrickx, R. C. W. Berkeley, and P. De Vos

Paenibacillus azotofixans (Seldin et al. 1984) Ash et al. 1995 does not have priority over Paenibacillus durum (Smith and Cato 1974) Collins et al. 1994 Request for an Opinion
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 325-326. [Abstract] [PDF]  

VALIDATION LIST NO. 64: Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 327-328. [PDF]  

NOTIFICATION LIST: Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 4, of the IJSB
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 329-330. [PDF]  

SYSTEMATIC BACTERIOLOGY:

David L. Williamson, Robert F. Whitcomb, Joseph G. Tully, Gail E. Gasparich, David L. Rose, Patricia Carle, Joseph M. Bové, Kevin J. Hackett, Jean R. Adams, Roberta B. Henegar, Meghnad Konai, Claude Chastel, and Frank E. French

Revised group classification of the genus Spiroplasma
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 1-12. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter van Berkum, Desta Beyene, Guiping Bao, T. Austin Campbell, and Bertrand D. Eardly

Rhizobium mongolense sp. nov. is one of three rhizobial genotypes identified which nodulate and form nitrogen-fixing symbioses with Medicago ruthenica [(L.) Ledebour]
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 13-22. [Abstract] [PDF]  

M. L. Miroshnichenko, G. M. Gongadze, F. A. Rainey, A. S. Kostyukova, A. M. Lysenko, N. A. Chernyh, and E. A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya

Thermococcus gorgonarius sp. nov. and Thermococcus pacificus sp. nov.: heterotrophic extremely thermophilic archaea from New Zealand submarine hot vents
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 23-29. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Robert Huber, Diana Dyba, Harald Huber, Siegfried Burggraf, and Reinhard Rachel

Sulfur-inhibited Thermosphaera aggregans sp. nov., a new genus of hyperthermophilic archaea isolated after its prediction from environmentally derived 16S rRNA sequences
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 31-38. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Eija Könönen, Jaana Mättö, Marja-Liisa Väisänen-Tunkelrott, Ellen V. G. Frandsen, Ilkka Helander, Sirkka Asikainen, Sydney M. Finegold, and Hannele Jousimies-Somer

Biochemical and genetic characterization of a Prevotella intermedia/nigrescens-like organism
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 39-46. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Eija Könönen, Erkki Eerola, Ellen V. G. Frandsen, Jari Jalava, Jaana Mättö, Saara Salmenlinna, and Hannele Jousimies-Somer

Phylogenetic characterization and proposal of a new pigmented species to the genus Prevotella: Prevotella pallens sp. nov.
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 47-51. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Zhi-Hong Zhou, Zhi-Heng Liu, Yu-Dong Qian, Seung Bum Kim, and Michael Goodfellow

Saccharopolyspora spinosporotrichia sp. nov., a novel actinomycete from soil
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 53-58. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Seung Bum Kim, Christine Falconer, Edwin Williams, and Michael Goodfellow

Streptomyces thermocarboxydovorans sp. nov. and Streptomyces thermocarboxydus sp. nov., two moderately thermophilic carboxydotrophic species from soil
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 59-68. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Berit Sjödén, Guido Funke, Antonio Izquierdo, Eva Akervall, and Matthew D. Collins

Description of some coryneform bacteria isolated from human clinical specimens as Corynebacterium falsenii sp. nov.
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 69-74. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Bertil Pettersson, Angeli Kodjo, Mostafa Ronaghi, Mathias Uhlén, and Tone Tønjum

Phylogeny of the family Moraxellaceae by 16S rDNA sequence analysis, with special emphasis on differentiation of Moraxella species
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 75-89. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chi-Yu Huang, Bharat K. Patel, Robert A. Mah, and Larry Baresi

Caldicellulosiruptor owensensis sp. nov., an anaerobic, extremely thermophilic, xylanolytic bacterium
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 91-97. [Abstract] [PDF]  

M. Heyndrickx, L. Lebbe, K. Kersters, P. De Vos, G. Forsyth, and N. A. Logan

Virgibacillus: a new genus to accommodate Bacillus pantothenticus (Proom and Knight 1950). Emended description of Virgibacillus pantothenticus
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 99-106. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Daniele Daffonchio, Sara Borin, Giuseppe Frova, Pier Luigi Manachini, and Claudia Sorlini

PCR fingerprinting of whole genomes: the spacers between the 16S and 23S rRNA genes and of intergenic tRNA gene regions reveal a different intraspecific genomic variability of Bacillus cereus and Bacillus licheniformis
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 107-116. [Abstract] [PDF]  

P. Vandamme, U. Torck, E. Falsen, B. Pot, H. Goossens, and K. Kersters

Whole-cell protein electrophoretic analysis of viridans streptococci: evidence for heterogeneity among Streptococcus mitis biovars
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 117-125. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mario Vaneechoutte, Patrick Boerlin, Hans-Volker Tichy, Elizabeth Bannerman, Birgit Jäger, and Jacques Bille

Comparison of PCR-based DNA fingerprinting techniques for the identification of Listeria species and their use for atypical Listeria isolates
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 127-139. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Don J. Brenner, Hans E. Müller, Arnold G. Steigerwalt, Anne M. Whitney, Caroline M. O'Hara, and Peter Kämpfer

Two new Rahnella genomospecies that cannot be phenotypically differentiated from Rahnella aquatilis
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 141-149. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gennadi M. Zaitsev, Irina V. Tsitko, Frederick A. Rainey, Yuri A. Trotsenko, Jussi S. Uotila, Erko Stackebrandt, and Mirja S. Salkinoja-Salonen

New aerobic ammonium-dependent obligately oxalotrophic bacteria: description of Ammoniphilus oxalaticus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Ammoniphilus oxalivorans gen. nov., sp. nov.
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 151-163. [Abstract] [PDF]  

P. L. Steyn, P. Segers, M. Vancanneyt, P. Sandra, K. Kersters, and J. J. Joubert

Classification of heparinolytic bacteria into a new genus, Pedobacter, comprising four species: Pedobacter heparinus comb. nov., Pedobacter piscium comb. nov., Pedobacter africanus sp. nov. and Pedobacter saltans sp. nov. Proposal of the family Sphingobacteriaceae fam. nov.
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 165-177. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Frank Ziemke, Manfred G. Höfle, Jorge Lalucat, and Ramon Rossellö-Mora

Reclassification of Shewanella putrefaciens Owen's genomic group II as Shewanella baltica sp. nov.
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 179-186. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jung-Hoon Yoon, Sung Taik Lee, and Yong-Ha Park

Inter- and intraspecific phylogenetic analysis of the genus Nocardioides and related taxa based on 16S rDNA sequences
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 187-194. [Abstract] [PDF]  

S. L. W. On, H. I. Atabay, J. E. L. Corry, C. S. Harrington, and P. Vandamme

Emended description of Campylobacter sputorum and revision of its infrasubspecific (biovar) divisions, including C. sputorum biovar paraureolyticus, a urease-producing variant from cattle and humans
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 195-206. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sara B. Feresu, Carole A. Bolin, and Hans Korver

A new leptospiral serovar, ngavi, in the Tarassovi serogroup isolated from Zimbabwe oxen
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 207-213. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alain Brauman, Jochen A. Müller, Jean-Louis Garcia, Andreas Brune, and Bernhard Schink

Fermentative degradation of 3-hydroxybenzoate in pure culture by a novel strictly anaerobic bacterium, Sporotomaculum hydroxybenzoicum gen. nov., sp. nov.
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 215-221. [Abstract] [PDF]  

John J. Gosink, Carl R. Woese, and James T. Staley

Polaribacter gen. nov., with three new species, P. irgensii sp. nov., P. franzmannii sp. nov. and P. filamentus sp. nov., gas vacuolate polar marine bacteria of the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides group and reclassification of ‘Flectobacillus glomeratus’ as Polaribacter glomeratus comb. nov.
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 223-235. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Carolyn S. Friedman, Blaine L. Beaman, Jongsik Chun, Michael Goodfellow, Arthur Gee, and Ronald P. Hedrick

Nocardia crassostreae sp. nov., the causal agent of nocardiosis in Pacific oysters
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 237-246. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Elena P. Ivanova, Elena A. Kiprianova, Valery V. Mikhailov, Galina F. Levanova, Alexandra D. Garagulya, Nataliya M. Gorshkova, Mikhail V. Vysotskii, Dan V. Nicolau, Noboru Yumoto, Takahisa Taguchi, and Susumu Yoshikawa

Phenotypic diversity of Pseudoalteromonas citrea from different marine habitats and emendation of the description
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 247-256. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Leyla Zreik, Joseph M. Bove, and Monique Garnier

Phylogenetic characterization of the bacterium-like organism associated with marginal chlorosis of strawberry and proposition of a Candidatus taxon for the organism, ‘Candidatus Phlomobacter fragariae’
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 257-261. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Malin Heldtander, Bertil Pettersson, Joseph G. Tully, and Karl-Erik Johansson

Sequences of the 16S rRNA genes and phylogeny of the goat mycoplasmas Mycoplasma adleri, Mycoplasma auris, Mycoplasma cottewii and Mycoplasma yeatsii
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 263-268. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rasa Jomantiene, Robert E. Davis, John Maas, and Ellen L. Dally

Classification of new phytoplasmas associated with diseases of strawberry in Florida, based on analysis of 16S rRNA and ribosomal protein gene operon sequences
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 269-277. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Georges Rawadi, Annick Dujeancourt-Henry, Brigitte Lemercier, and Daisy Roulland-Dussoix

Note: Phylogenetic position of rare human mycoplasmas, Mycoplasma faucium, M. buccale, M. primatum and M. spermatophilum, based on 16S rRNA gene sequences
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 305-309. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mehrdad Motamedi and Karsten Pedersen

Note: Desulfovibrio aespoeensis sp. nov., a mesophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium from deep groundwater at äspö hard rock laboratory, Sweden
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 311-315. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Paul J. Brett, David DeShazer, and Donald E. Woods

Note: Burkholderia thailandensis sp. nov., a Burkholderia pseudomallei-like species
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 317-320. [Abstract] [PDF]  

G. E. Gasparich, K. J. Hackett, F. E. French, and R. F. Whitcomb

Note: Serologic and genomic relatedness of group XIV spiroplasma isolates from a lampyrid beetle and tabanid flies: an ecologic paradox
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 321-324. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SYSTEMATICS OF YEASTS:

Miguel de Barros Lopes, Alison Soden, Anna L. Martens, Paul A. Henschke, and Peter Langridge

Differentiation and species identification of yeasts using PCR
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 279-286. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Makiko Hamamoto, Takashi Kuroyanagi, and Takashi Nakase

Fellomyces ogasawarensis sp. nov. and Fellomyces distylii sp. nov., yeasts isolated from a plant in Japan
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 287-293. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Robert Montrocher, Marie-Christine Verner, Jérôme Briolay, Christian Gautier, and Roland Marmeisse

Phylogenetic analysis of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae group based on polymorphisms of rDNA spacer sequences
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 295-303. [Abstract] [PDF]  

ERRATA:

P. Vandamme, L. A. Devriese, B. Pot, K. Kersters, and P. Melin

Streptococcus difficile is a nonhemolytic group B, type Ib streptococcus
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 331. [PDF]  

M. Heyndrickx, L. Lebbe, M. Vancanneyt, K. Kersters, P. De Vos, N. A. Logan, G. Forsyth, S. Nazli, N. Ali, and R. C. W. Berkeley

A polyphasic reassessment of the genus Aneurinibacillus, reclassification of Bacillus thermoaerophilus (Meier-Stauffer et al. 1996) as Aneurinibacillus thermoaerophilus comb. nov., and emended descriptions of A. aneurinilyticus corrig., A. migulanus, and A. thermoaerophilus
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 331. [PDF]  

Masataka Satomi, Bon Kimura, Michiko Mizoi, Tsuneo Sato, and Tateo Fujii

Tetragenococcus muriaticus sp. nov., a new moderately halophilic lactic acid bacterium isolated from fermented squid liver sauce
Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 332. [PDF]  

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